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Haiti 2010 earthquake: then and now – in pictures

   February 20, 2013
A month after the earthquake struck on 12 January 2010, the collapsed Caribbean Market in Port-au-Prince was deserted, with rubble and rubbish rotting in surrounding streets. The market building was one of several of the city's landmarks destroyed by the magnitude 7.0 quake whose epicentre was 16 miles west of the capital

Three years after the earthquake that claimed between 230,000 and 300,000 lives in Haiti and left 1.5 million people homeless, reconstruction continues slowly. These images show scenes of devastation in the capital, Port-au-Prince, in the immediate aftermath of the quake, and how it looks today. Some areas have been rebuilt, some left as grim reminders, while others remain in limbo.

Three years after the earthquake that claimed between 230,000 and 300,000 lives in Haiti and left 1.5 million people homeless, reconstruction continues slowly. These images show scenes of devastation in the capital, Port-au-Prince, in the immediate aftermath of the quake, and how it looks today. Some areas have been rebuilt, some left as grim reminders, while others remain in limbo
Residents of Port-au-Prince make their way through rubble and downed power lines in a devastated street on 14 January 2010. In the days immediately after the quake, troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into the capital as the search for missing people continued
Three years on, normal life has resumed for many Haitians. Here, residents of Port-au-Prince go about their daily lives in a street that was all but destroyed by the quakePhotograph
A flag flies where the national palace used to stand in Port-au-Prince. The building was so badly damaged in the quake that it was eventually pulled down by the Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Organisation NGO, headed by US actor and activist Sean Penn, because of fears that it had become a danger to passersby
As Haiti struggled to recover from the earthquake, Hurricane Tomas struck on 5 November 2010. This woman was pictured the following day carrying her baby son through the debris of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Port-au-Prince. The city's Episcopalian cathedral was also devastated
Birds fly over what remains of the Roman Catholic cathedral in Port-au-Prince. Only the outer walls remain of the cathedral, one of several national institutions devastated in minutes. It could be years before it is rebuilt in line with new earthquake- and hurricane-resistant standards

Haiti: 2010 post earthquake

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