When alarmist Seth Borenstein told us "the Earth struck back" in 2010, killing a quarter of a million people, should he have been more clear about the fact that a single earthquake killed about a quarter million of those people?

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In the year 2010, earthquakes, heat waves, floods, mega-typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed a quarter of a million people - most of them in January's earthquake in Haiti.

Haiti's earthquake death toll revised to at least 250,000 - Telegraph

Haiti's devastating January earthquake killed between 250,000 and 300,000 people, the head of the United Nations mission in the country has said, at least 30,000 more than previously thought.

2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards - Borenstein

This was the year the Earth struck back.

Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 — the deadliest year in more than a generation.
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Disasters from the Earth, such as earthquakes and volcanoes "are pretty much constant," said Andreas Schraft, vice president of catastrophic perils for the Geneva-based insurance giant Swiss Re. "All the change that's made is man-made."