Haiti
It's difficult to comprehend the shear scale of devastation. There aren't the adjectives. At least there are some numbers, like 10,000 people buried in a mass grave with earth-movers in one day. If quake deaths are capped at 200,000, it will have claimed 2% of Haiti's population.
To map that loss to the US population would be 6.1 million people, or at least half of the greater Los Angeles area or nearly all of the Bay Area metropolitan's population at any given moment. Just think about what that 2% would mean to the United States - it would be utterly devastating by every measure.
To map that loss to the US population would be 6.1 million people, or at least half of the greater Los Angeles area or nearly all of the Bay Area metropolitan's population at any given moment. Just think about what that 2% would mean to the United States - it would be utterly devastating by every measure.