Another strong struck almost exactly the same area four years later on May 8, 2003.
He probably died of a fever that struck the area.
A series of over 1,000 earthquakes struck the area in 1811 and 1812.
About this time, on October 17, 1910, a major hurricane struck the area.
The city began clearing the north side of the river after a flood struck the area in 1998.
The powerful storm, with winds of 95 miles an hour, struck the area on May 13.
Before a tornado strikes an area, the wind has been known to die down and the air to become very still.
During this time period, a meteor is believed to have struck the area.
Isolated storms continued to strike the area throughout the night.
It struck the metropolitan area where almost a third of Haiti's nine million people live.