The passengers of a flight from Haiti to Miami, which left shortly after the quake hit, said the airport building had been severely damaged. The earthquake in Haiti has been particularly devastating for children who lost their parents. Haiti Quake: Ruin And Recovery A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, Tuesday night, causing widespread destruction. 02-02-2010 Interview. (Read "Haiti Death Toll May Be in the Thousands.") Haiti earthquake: no effort must be spared in reuniting children with their families. Haiti is one of many poor countries where international aid has failed to fulfil its objectives. “The enthusiasm to see change in Haiti has waned over time.” The earthquake decimated the southern portion of Haiti, leveling more than 100,000 buildings in metropolitan Port-au-Prince and the cities of Jacmel and Léogâne, where the epicenter was. On January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and causing horrific injuries to over 300,000. A post-disaster assessment by the U.N. estimated the destruction at $7.9 billion. But strike-slip faults often run through populated areas, so they can be the most damaging to humans. "A lot of money was spent after the earthquake, but the results are meager," Haitian President Jovenel Moise told CNN in an interview Sunday. After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, 19 children from one orphanage were flown to the U.S. to be adopted by American families. "The whole outside had deteriorated, from top to bottom it was cracked up totally," one man told reporters. Haiti's calamitous earthquake a decade ago leveled much of the capital, killed tens of thousands and left some 1.5 million people homeless. Velina Charlier was 29 … Before and after the Haiti earthquake: An interview with MSF physician Dr. Wendy Lai. "We thought it was something that hit the building, but it turned out it was an earthquake." One would later meet President Trump. Haiti earthquake: Haitian solidarity, one month on 12-02-2010 Interview Riccardo Conti, the ICRC's head of delegation in Haiti, witnessed the powerful earthquake … Paul Major, President of Telluride Foundation, talks with former Telluride TV host Jeb Berrier about the eathquake crisis in A thrust earthquake, in which one side of the fault goes up, is the type that produces truly enormous events like the Sumatra earthquake of 2004.