Women pass the destroyed Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters) When a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti 10 years ago, I was a 22-year-old university student studying business management. As it first started, it sounded like just another cement truck rumbling through our neighborhood. But instead of passing by, the rumbling only got louder. When our floor began to shake, we knew something was terribly wrong.