With the recent occupy wall street movement, the people of the united states keep hearing about the top 1%. how much of the united state’s wealth rests in the hands of the wealthiest top 1% of people?

the earthquake in haiti was a magnitude of 7.0 according to the u.s geological survey yet the smaller earthquake in haiti killed more than 200,000 and left more than 1.2 million people homeless. the chile earthquake was a magnitude of 8.8 and 500 times more stronger but chile's earthquake only injured 712 people.