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A major earthquake struck souther Haiti on tuesday January 12 this quake was named one of the worst in the region for more than 200 year. Development Banked estimated that the total cost of the disaster was in between $7.2 billion to $13.2 billion with a death rate of 200,000 to 250,000 which was late revised by the president Rene Preval to 300,000. The quake left the country in shambles without electricity or phone services. Before the quake Haiti was already facing problems of little food and water for the residents of the capital. Survivors walked the streets some hurt and bloody and many others without food or water by piles of covered corpses and rubble. Soon relief effort came to Haiti with food giveaways, aid agencies, and other country with managed to help Haiti with some money.