7 May 1842: An earthquake destroys the city of Cap-Haïtien

The ephemeris of the day: the national holidays, the events marking the history of Haiti, the proverbs... the online agency Juno7 brings you a refreshment of the memory. Earthquake in Cap-Haïtien an earthquake of a magnitude 8.1 on the scale of Richter hits the Cap-Haïtien. Half of the 10,000 inhabitants of the city was killed, and 300 others died in a tsunami that followed the disaster. This earthquake destroyed not only the city of Cape Town b…