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7.0 earthquake In Haiti
Topic Started: Jan 12 2010, 08:33 PM (3,133 Views)
Baldo
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http://neic.usgs.gov/neis/bulletin/neic_rja6_l.html

Catholic Relief Services describes situation in Haiti as "a total disaster"

Witnesses report heavy damage throughout Port-au-Prince, Haiti, including president's residence and century-old homes
Edited by Baldo, Jan 12 2010, 08:35 PM.
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Big Haiti quake topples buildings, casualties seen

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A major earthquake hit the impoverished country of Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing buildings in the capital Port-au-Prince and burying residents under rubble, a Reuters reporter in the city said.

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He said he saw dozens of dead and injured people in the rubble, which blocked streets in the city.

The epicenter of the quake was located inland, only 10 miles from the capital Port-au-Prince and was very shallow at a depth of only 6.2 miles.

It prompted a tsunami watch for parts the Caribbean, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said on Tuesday.

"Everything started shaking, people were screaming, houses started collapsing ... it's total chaos," Reuters reporter Joseph Guyler Delva said. "I saw people under the rubble, and people killed," he added.

A local employee for the U.S. charity Food for the Poor reported seeing a five-storey building collapse in Port-au-Prince, a spokeswoman for the group, Kathy Skipper, told Reuters.

Another Food for the Poor employee said there were more houses destroyed than standing in Delmas Road, a major thoroughfare in the city.

Panic-stricken residents filled the streets desperately trying to dig people from rubble or seeking missing relatives as dark fell shortly after the quake.

"People were screaming 'Jesus, Jesus' and running in all directions," Delva said.

A major earthquake, of magnitude 7 or higher, is capable of causing widespread and heavy damage. There was no immediate report of damage or casualties.

The tsunami center said the watch was in effect for Haiti, the neighboring Dominican Republic, with which it shares the island of Hispaniola, Cuba and the Bahamas.

"A destructive widespread tsunami threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data," the center said. "However, there is the possibility of a local tsunami that could affect coasts located usually no more than a 100 km (60 miles) from the earthquake epicenter."

The quake was quickly followed by two nearby, strong aftershocks of initial magnitude of 5.9 and 5.5,

Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60B5IZ20100112


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I have a friend that lives in the Dominican Republic they felt the quake there now they are under a tsumani watch for the time being, unless the warning has been lifted by now.
Edited by Kerri P., Jan 12 2010, 09:11 PM.
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http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/Maps/10/290_20.php

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Kerri P.
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My friend in the Dominican Republic just logged on to facebook and said that the tsumani watch has been canceled.
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This is heartbreaking. The destruction sounds overwhelming.
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Haiti is a third world country and the DR is seperate from them because of that. They have no building standards, this will go on forever in third world countries. Haiti and there people will be helped by us and the rest of the world, because they cannot take care of themselves and we will be called an occupation force.
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Just saw a pic taken shortly after the quake from a hilltop. All you could see, as far as you could see, was dust, presumably from collapsed structures.
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Pictures (slide show) at :

http://radioteleginen.ning.com/profiles/blogs/2912161:BlogPost:15529?xg_source=activity

(Not for the squeamish!)

The Presidential Palace has been destroyed:

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I have visited Haiti and it is without a doubt an impoverished country. Corruption is the cornerstone of any of their governments and has been for a long long time.

Those people will suffer deeply. I have never seen a more beaten down people. There is wealth, but they don't care about their fellow citizens.

The USA has pour hundreds of millions into there, but it doesn't change. They seem incapable of having an honest govt.

The Presidential Palace was their jewel, now it is destroyed.
Edited by Baldo, Jan 12 2010, 11:39 PM.
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It would be a good time to send an aircraft carrier there Barry, which has a lot of medical folks and equipment, and the ability to make a lot of fresh water, and quite a few engineers and logistics folks to help out with recovery.
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Doctors Without Borders says ALL hospitals in Haiti capital area have either collapsed or been abandoned

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It looks very very bad. An absolute catastrophic
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haitians are piling bodies along the devastated streets of their capital after a powerful earthquake flattened the president's palace and the main prison, the cathedral, hospitals, schools and thousands of homes. Untold numbers are still trapped.

President Rene Preval says he believes thousands of people are dead even as other officials give much higher estimates—though they were based on the extent of the destruction rather than firm counts of the dead.

His prime minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, tells CNN: "I believe we are well over 100,000," while leading senator Youri Latortue tells The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead. Both admit they have no way of knowing.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9D70GP00&show_article=
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The US will take the lead in providing relief and assistance to the nation of Haiti. This aid will not just be in the form of governmental assistance but will come from individual private citizens, church groups, and other charitable organizations. Americans will willingly undertake this because of the belief that "to whom much is given, much is expected". Long after the earthquake has receded from the news, Americans will continue their generous ways. Though other nations of the world will rpovide aid, no nation will provide as much, for as long, and with no expectation of something in return. It is sad that those nations who so continually regard our nation as the Great Satan, do not realize the generosity and concern that Americans do have for those who suffer.
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We could pay a whole bunch of out of work US Citizens to go down there and help out. They'll need lots of help now and lots of help rebuilding.

Instead of just sending money and wondering where it might have gone.
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