Qualla: 2021 Haiti Earthquake https://qualla.com/2021-haiti-earthquake en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: 2021 Haiti Earthquake https://qualla.com/2021-haiti-earthquake 2021 Haiti Earthquake: Introduction https://qualla.com/2021-haiti-earthquake/ The Saturday morning Mass at the Immaculee Conception Church in Les Anglais had just begun when the ground split open. Built in 1907, the church had survived more than a century of Caribbean storms. It did not survive the seventeen seconds that began at 8:29 a.m. on August 14, 2021. The facade collapsed inward, killing seventeen people where they knelt. Twenty miles away in Toirac, outside Les Cayes, twenty more died when St. Famille du Toirac church came down during a funeral. Across southern Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake was tearing apart a country that had barely begun to recover from its last catastrophe.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/7/7/b/2021-haiti-earthquake-wp/d77b-2021-haiti-earthquake-grace-and-no-mercy.mp3 0:06 4 full 2021 Haiti Earthquake: A Country Already Broken https://qualla.com/2021-haiti-earthquake/ The earthquake did not strike a functioning state. Five weeks earlier, on July 7, 2021, President Jovenel Moise had been assassinated in his home. Forty-four people were arrested in connection with the killing, but the investigation was stalling even before the ground shook. Prim...

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