This Day in History: <br />Massive Earthquake <br />Strikes Haiti.<br />January 12, 2010.<br />A magnitude 7.0 earthquake <br />struck at 4:53 p.m. local time, <br />devastating the small <br />Caribbean island nation.<br />It was the strongest <br />quake to strike the <br />region in more than <br />200 years.<br />More than 200,000 <br />people were killed.<br />Reducing countless homes <br />to rubble, the quake left nearly <br />one million people homeless.<br />Thousands of bodies <br />were picked up by trucks <br />and buried in mass graves.<br />One of the poorest nations on Earth, <br />Haiti's recovery effort relied on <br />billions of dollars in global donations
