by Quinn Nowlan – 1/18/10 On Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 at 4:53 PM Haiti time, magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck 15 miles West-Southwest of the Haitian capital of Port-Au-Prince, at a depth of 8.1 miles, +- 2.1 miles (1).  The quake lasted approximately 30 – 40 seconds.  Because of the fairly shallow depth of the quake,