This Day in History: br Massive Earthquake br Strikes Haiti.br January 12, 2010.br A magnitude 7.0 earthquake br struck at 4:53 p.m. local time, br devastating the small br Caribbean island nation.br It was the strongest br quake to strike the br region in more than br 200 years.br More than 200,000 br people were killed.br Reducing countless homes br to rubble, the quake left nearly br one million people homeless.br Thousands of bodies br were picked up by trucks br and buried in mass graves.