Haiti is our neighbor. If one does not have the resources to save the world, one can start by helping a neighbor. The reason why the world is the way it is, is because so many see that there are problems everywhere and decide this means they should do nothing at all.
Nope, its not even the largest in the last year. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquak...ear/byyear.php
The largest magnitude ever recorded was in Chile in 1960; a 9.5 on the richter scale.