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2010 Science News of the Year: Earth

By Science News

- More than 2 years ago

People walking through streets in post-earthquake Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Credit: Alvaro Ybarra Zavala/Getty Images

Inside the Haiti quake
Some 230,000 Haitians died when a magnitude-7 earthquake struck just outside Port-au-Prince on the afternoon of January 12. Scientists from around the world scrambled to the scene (SN Online: 1/16/10) to assess which fault had ruptured and whether more people were at risk.