Japan Earthquake vs 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami vs Haiti Earthquakelatest news update,Japan Earthquake vs 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami vs Haiti Earthquake;The earthquake that hit Japan today was much, much stronger than the January 12 2010 earthquake that flattened much of Haiti. 8.8 (Japan) is several orders of magnitude stronger than 7.2 (Haiti).But consider this: The Japan earthquake will likely result in a death toll in the several hundreds or thousands. The Haiti earthquake killed in the hundreds of thousands. The Japan earthquake will likely leave thousands of people homeless. The Haiti earthquake made millions of people homeless in an instant.Japan Earthquake vs 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami vs Haiti EarthquakeIn other words, magnitudes of the strength of the two earthquakes are in inverse proportion to the magnitude of the damage they caused. That’s what happens when a less powerful earthquake hits a country with a GDP that is a fraction of Japan’s (Haiti’s GDP is $6.495 billion vs Japan: $5.39 trillion).Japan Earthquake vs 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami vs Haiti Earthquake
