Bible Time
13000-12-26 (2010-01-11): Haiti Quake
The Haiti Quake struck on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. The epicenter was about 15 miles west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The 7.0 M quake was quite severe, leveling major swaths of the capital. It also caused extensive loss of life, with upwards of 200,000 dead. Most of the ruling class was killed in the quake, leaving the country in a state of anarchy.
Other nations began a relief operation which kicked in over the next several days. That operation was hampered by the destruction of the country's only deep water port facility. Airlifts were also hampered because the quake did extensive damage to the nation's only airport, a single-runway facility.
Notes
In the main plague series this was the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, with only 13 deaths. In both cases the cause of death was the collapse of facilities, though of course the earlier version was much less severe in terms of loss of life.
Matches
The passage deals directly with the lack of water, a major problem in Haiti in the days after. It also deals with the stench, a major problem with thousands of decaying and unburied bodies.
Exodus Firstborn-Plague: 8 Plague: Strike the Nile: Blood on waters
Theoretical Time:
- 13000/12/26 11:6:4 AA
- 2010-01-12 04:43:42 TMMT
- 2010-01-12 02:22:48 GMT
- 2010-01-11 21:22:48 EST
Associated Scripture:
2 Exodus 7:15-24
15Go to Pharaoh in the morning; look, he goes out to his daily duty; and you stand toward him by the river's brink and wait; and take in your hand the staff which was turned into a serpent.
16And you will say to him, Yahvah God of the Hebrews has sent me to you saying, Let my people go that they may serve me in the wilderness; and look, until now you have not listened.
17Yahvah says, By this you will know that I am Yahvah: look, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike on the waters of the river, and they will be turned to blood.
18And the fish that are in the river will die, and the river will stink; and the Egyptians will loathe to drink of the water of the river.
19And Yahvah said to Moses, Say to Aaron, Take your staff and lift up your hand on the waters of Egypt, on their rivers, on their ponds, and on all their pools of water, and on the streams, and they will become blood; and there will be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, in both vessels of wood and vessels of stone.
20And Moses and Aaron did as Yahvah had commanded them; and Aaron lifted up the staff which was in his hand and struck the waters of the river, in the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned into blood.
21And the fish that were in the river died; and the river stank, and the Egyptians could not drink the water of the river; and there was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.
22And the magicians of Egypt did the same by their enchantments; but Pharaoh's heart was hardened and he did not listen to them, as Yahvah had said.
23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take to heart even this sign.
24And all the Egyptians dug around the river for water to drink; for they could not drink of the water of the river.