In pictures: Haiti earthquake
A major earthquake, measuring 7.0 on the richter scale, struck the impoverished nation of Haiti on Tuesday 12 January. The quake is the most powerful to hit the Caribbean country in 200 years and is a devastating blow for Haitians who were already struggling to survive.
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People wander the streets in front of the remains of a boarding school in the downtown area of Port-au-Prince on 13 January, 2010.
Photo: Frederic Dupoux/Getty Images
A man carries an injured person along a destroyed area of Port-au-Prince on 14 January, 2010.
Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva, courtesy of alertnet.org
People pick through the rubble of their home in Port-au-Prince, 14 January, 2010.
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Injured people are seen at a makeshift field hospital on 13 January, 2010 in Port-au-Prince.
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Children peer out from a hole of a makeshift shelter after the major earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January, 2010.
Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva, courtesy of alertnet.org
People walk in front of a cathedral building destroyed by the earthquake in Port-au-Prince.
Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva, courtesy of alertnet.org
People line up for food distributed by UN forces in Port-au-Prince on 14 January, 2010.
Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz, courtesy of alertnet.org
A makeshift campsite for where people are sheltering in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Photo: Oxfam
Residents of Port-au-Prince stand among debris in the aftermath of the earthquake.
Photo: REUTERS/Jorge Silva, courtesy of alertnet.org
People look for bodies under the remains of a building destroyed by the massive earthquake on January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince.
Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Oxfam staff set up a water bladder to distribute over 10,000 litres of water to those worst affected by the earthquake.
Photo: Oxfam
People queue to collect water from an Oxfam distribution.
Photo: Oxfam
