2010 Haiti earthquake
12 January 2010 magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake
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Summary
2010 Haiti earthquake is an earthquake[1]. It ranks in the top 0.69% of earthquake entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,277 views/month, #6 of 869).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Port-au-Prince Arrondissement[3]
- Country: Haiti[4]
- Instance of: natural disaster[5], disaster[6]
- Commons category: 2010 Haiti earthquake[7]
- Point in time: January 12, 2010[8]
- Topic's main category: Category:2010 Haiti earthquake[9]
- Number of deaths: 230,000[10]
- Number of injured: 250,000[11]
- Duration: 30 seconds[12]
- Earthquake magnitude on the moment magnitude scale: 7.15[13]
- Earthquake magnitude on the Richter magnitude scale: 7[14]
- Permanent duplicated item: Q19942159[15]
- Vertical depth: 10 km[16]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[17]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Haiti[18], WikiProject Disaster management[19], WikiProject Earthquakes[20], WikiProject 2010s[21], WikiProject International relations[22]
Why It Matters
2010 Haiti earthquake has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 99 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]