Haiti brought to its knees by an earthquake. The ground was shaking, according to data reported by seismographs of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) at 22:53:09 Italian on the 12th January, a magnitude 7 quake, depth of 10 km. The epicenter of the earthquake is about 15 km south-west of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, 140 miles east of Les Cayes, Haiti, and about 145 km west-northwest of Barahona, Dominican Republic. Would be very serious consequences of this earthquake many buildings collapsed, including three hospitals, hundreds of people who have lost their lives.