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Byline: Martin Armstrong, Jan 9, 2020

On January 12, 2010 at 16:53 local time the earth shook in Haiti. The devastating quake, which had its epicentre in the capital Port-au-Prince, killed around 316,000 people and plunged the country into a severe humanitarian crisis. More than 1.5 million people became homeless. Even today, ten years later, the Haiti disaster is still the earthquake with the most fatalities since 1900, as this infographic with data from the United States Geological Survey shows.

Other severe earthquakes in recent history occurred mainly in China: around 273,400 people died in the Haiyuan earthquake on December 16, 1920; the...