Haiti death toll matches Asian Tsunami

Posted By Joshua Keating Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 10:32 AM Share

With the Haitian government raising the death toll from last month's earthquake to 230,000, the count now matches the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.   Considering that the tsunami damage was spread out over eight countries as opposed to one country the size of Massachusetss, that's pretty staggering. 

 

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