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The 2010 Haiti earthquake
A shallow magnitude 7.0 earthquake near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, killed at least 160,000 people and left 1.5 million homeless.
- Named earthquake
- Tectonic hazard, LIC
The timeline
The same case studies as the map, on a time axis instead of a place one. Geography is normally read by where something happened, so this is the second view rather than the first: it is here for when the question is when.
35 case studies, 2010 to 2026. 21 carry no date and sit outside the run of it
When the case studies are
2010
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The 2010 Eyjafjallajokull eruption, Iceland
A small ice-capped Icelandic volcano produced an ash cloud that shut European airspace and cancelled about 100,000 flights.
- Volcanic eruption
- Tectonic hazard, HIC