Yerevan to host charity exhibition-selling to assist the victims of Haiti earthquake

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A charity exhibition-selling organized by the Armenian UN Association under the high auspices of the World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA) and with the assistance of the UN Armenia House will take place in the UN Conference Hall on January 29, 2010. The whole contribution through the WFUNA will be addressed to the UN Central Emergency Response Fund (UNCERF) which will be addressed for relief in Haiti.



The 2010 Haiti Earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake centered approximately 25 kilometers (16 mi) from Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, striking at 16:53:09 local time (21:53:09 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The earthquake occurred at a depth of 13 kilometers (8.1 mi). The United States Geological Survey recorded a series of aftershocks, fourteen of them between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9. The International Red Cross estimated that about three million people were affected by the quake, and Haitian authorities believe that up to 200,000 could be dead, exceeding earlier Red Cross estimates of 45,000–50,000 people killed.