The earthquake, however, must be to every one a most impressive event: the earth, considered from our earliest childhood as the type of solidity, has oscillated like a thin crust beneath our feet; and in seeing the laboured works of man in a moment overthrown, we feel the insignificance of his boasted power.
An earthquake is the movement of the ground, resulting from pressure between tectonic plates. Some places experience many earthquakes because they are located near to an active plate boundary.
Most of the earthquakes between 2000 and 2025 have been recorded in China, followed by Indonesia and Iran, but Haiti reaches the highest death toll with just one earthquake in 2010, where – according to the Haitian government- more than 200.000 people died.
