On January 12, 2010 (November 28, 2009 in the lunar calendar), a magnitude 7 earthquake occurred in Haiti. On the afternoon of January 12, 2010 local time, the epicenter was about 16 kilometers away from the capital Port-au-Prince. A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred. It was the strongest earthquake in Haiti in 200 years, with a focal depth of 8 kilometers. The Prime Minister of Haiti said on the 13th that the death toll caused by the strong earthquake may be as high as 100,000. Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, has become a mess after a sudden earthquake. The presidential palace, churches, hospitals, schools, prisons and all communities were severely damaged. Haiti, which was hit by the strongest earthquake in nearly 200 years, was still unable to count the casualties in the earthquake on the 13th, but the country's official estimates that the number of victims may exceed 100,000. On January 13, the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, was severely damaged in the earthquake. On January 13, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, before the official start of the open debate that day, at the suggestion of Zhang Yesui, the rotating chairman of the Security Council for this month and Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, representatives of all Security Council members and relevant participants all stood up and observed one minute of silence for the victims of the powerful earthquake in Haiti.