This Day in History:, Massive Earthquake <br />Strikes Haiti.<br />January 12, 2010.<br />A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck at <br />4:53 p.m. local time, devastating the <br />small 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 people were killed.<br />Reducing countless homes to rubble, <br />the quake left nearly one million people homeless.<br />Thousands of bodies were picked up by <br />trucks 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
