2010 Haiti earthquake

12 January 2010 magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake
Event earthquake Q43777
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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]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [12] ↑ . independent.co.uk. Retrieved . independent.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Earthquake magnitude on the richter magnitude scale → {'amount': '+7'}
    Permanent duplicated item → Q19942159
    Country → Haiti
    Number of injured → {'amount': '+250000'}
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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