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Haiti: has there been progress in disaster reduction since the last big earthquake?

Emergency Planning

This was in 2010, shortly after Haiti had been prostrated by a magnitude 7 earthquake. As bodies piled up on street corners and in courtyards there was no time to count them all. The 2010 earthquake occurred after yet another period of instability, which the United Nations Peacekeeping mission (MINUSTAH) had striven to bring to an end.