7.0 earthquake hits Haiti Serious loss of life expected
A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere’s poorest nation.
Several eyewitnesses reported heavy damage and bodies in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, where concrete-block homes line steep hillsides. There was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening, but the U.S. State Department has been told to expect serious loss of life department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters in Washington.
The only thing I can do now is pray and hope for the best the ambassador, Raymond Alcide Joseph
The magnitude 7.0 quake — the most powerful to hit Haiti in a century — struck shortly before 5 p.m. and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. It could be felt strongly in eastern Cuba, more than 200 miles away, witnesses said.
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Mike Godfrey, an American contractor working for the U.S. Agency for International Development, said “a huge plume of dust and smoke rose up over the city” within minutes of the quake — “a blanket that completely covered the city and obscured it for about 20 minutes.”
Witnesses reported damaged buildings throughout the capital, including the president’s residence and century-old homes nearby, and The Associated Press reported that a hospital collapsed. President Rene Preval is safe, Joseph said, but there was no estimate of the dead and wounded Tuesday evening.
He said an official of his government told him houses had crumbled “on the right side of the street and the left side of the street.”
“He said it is a catastrophe of major proportions,” Joseph said.
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Frank Williams, the Haitian director of the relief agency World Vision International, said the quake left people “pretty much screaming” all around Port-au-Prince. He said the agency’s building shook for about 35 seconds, “and portions of things on the building fell off.”
“None of our staff were injured, but lots of walls are falling down,” Williams said. “Many of our staff have tried to leave, but were unsuccessful because the walls from buildings and private residences are falling into the streets, so that it has pretty much blocked significantly most of the traffic.”
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Haiti’s government is backed by a U.N. peacekeeping mission established after the ouster of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 2004.
The headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Port-au-Prince collapsed, a U.N. official told CNN.
There was no immediate report of any dead or wounded from the building, but Alain Le Roy, the undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations said of the 9,000-member, Brazilian led-force, “For the moment, a large number of personnel remain unaccounted for.”
Outside the capital, several people were hurt when they rushed to get out of a school in the southwestern city of Les Cayes, said the Rev. Kesner Ajax, the school’s executive director. Two homes in the area collapsed and the top of a church collapsed in a nearby town, he said, but he did not know of any fatalities.
Les Cayes, a city of about 400,000 people, is about 140 miles (225 kilometers) southwest of Port-au-Prince.
The quake took place about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to the USGS — a depth that can produce severe shaking. At least 10 aftershocks followed, including two in the magnitude 5 range, the USGS reported.
Jean Bernard, an eyewitness in Port-au-Prince, told CNN the city had no electricity Tuesday evening. The first quake lasted 35 to 40 seconds, he said.
“A lot of houses [and] buildings went down, and people are still running all over the streets,” Bernard said. “People are looking for their wives, looking for their husbands and their kids. It’s scary.”
Luke Renner, an American staying in Cap-Hatien, a city nearly 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince, said he was sitting at his home when “the whole world started to shake.”
“It felt like our whole house was balancing on a beach ball,” Renner said. “We heard the whole community screaming and in an uproar during that whole 20- to 30-second window.”
“I haven’t seen any structural damage here,” Renner continued. “With the sun setting it may be difficult to tell. In the morning we’ll know for sure.”
Because of the earthquake’s proximity to the capital, and because the city is densely populated and has poorly constructed housing, “it could cause significant casualties,” said Jian Lin, a senior geologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
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ABC Nightline:Haiti Earthquake updates:Day #3
!!!THEY NEED HELP!!!:
More videos:
-Raw Footage Of Earthquake In Haiti 1/12/2010: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ-ZEoD8PBE&feature=player_embedded
-Haiti earthquake footage..:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7okWM0dAX5A&feature=player_embedded
-!!MAJOR DISASTER AFTER EARTHQUAKE DEVASTATES HAITI!!:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMN2oUY34N0&feature=player_embedded
-Please text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to YELE HAITI.Your money will help with relief efforts. They need our help..please …
-Red Cross linked with Amazon so you can use your Amazon account to donate $ to Haiti: http://bit.ly/4XMCoB
-A group called Direct Relief International is organising medical aid to Haiti http://bit.ly/7CQmw2
-Haiti 911 http://earthquake.haiti911.com/
-Red Cross:http://www.redcross.org/
-Red Cross donation:http://www.redcross.org/donate/donate.html
-More Haiti Earthquake images:http://picfog.com/search/Haiti
My thoughts & prayers for those people in Haiti.& yes,help is on the way!!Shame those people on youtube who put Haiti earthquake pics just to gain views.
World Wide Earthquakes in the past 30+ hours:
Last 30+ hours:
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- M3.5 – 62.6 km (38.9 mi) W of Ferndale
- M 5.1, northeast of Taiwan
-M 4.9, Guatemala
-M 3.1, Southern California
-M 3.2, Mona Passage, Puerto Rico
-M 3.8, Unimak Island region, Alaska
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More information:
-ABC http://abcnews.go.com/
-CNN http://abcnews.go.com/
-Yahoo news http://news.yahoo.com/
‘Severe shaking’,'wide spread devastation’,'kids need medical attention’,'Haiti is NOT prepared for this wide spread devastation’,-CNN
Haiti’s infrastructure was among the world’s worst even in the best of times, the country’s ambassador to the U.S. said-CNN
-FAA, Miami center says it cannot establish communication with Haiti airport, will not send flights until link is made – NBC
-Catholic Relief Services describes situation in Haiti as “a total disaster”
-CNN donation: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/
How you can help:
• International Medical Corps
• Direct Relief International
• World Vision
• International Relief Teams
• Yéle Haiti
• American Red Cross
• Operation USA
• CARE
• Catholic Relief Services
• World Food Programme
• World Concern
• Save the Children
• UNICEF USA
*Help on it’s way:
-U.S. to give help
-California troops on there way to Haiti
-U.N. to help too
-Inter-American Development Bank to immediately provide $200,000 to Haiti in emergency aid – Reuters
-Members of Los Angeles Fire Department heading to Haiti to help with quake relief. http://bit.ly/4ilYl
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Impressive pictures of the 8.8 magnitude Earthquake in Chile, 2010
Over six months ago the 2010 Chilean earthquake occurred off the coast of the Maule Region of Chile on February 27, 2010; at 03:34 local time (06:34 UTC), rating a magnitude of 8.8 on the moment magnitude scale, and lasting up to 90 seconds.
It was strongly felt in six Chilean regions (from Valparaíso in the north to Araucanía in the south), that together make up 80 percent of the country’s population. The cities experiencing the strongest shaking IX (Ruinous) on the Mercalli intensity scale were Arauco and Coronel, Chile.
The earthquake was felt in the capital Santiago at Mercalli intensity scale VIII (Destructive).
The earthquake triggered a tsunami which devastated several coastal towns in south-central Chile and damaged the port at Talcahuano.
Photographs taken by Pedro Monzón
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Haiti Earthquake Update
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Earthquake Video! (Baja. hati, Pico, Chile!)
From the past months there have been a majority of earthquakes, all around the globe, heres an example of a big earthquake Isaiah woke up in, its funny because the day before there was am earthquake in baja and triggered more.
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Haiti Earthquake & the HAARP Induction Magnetometer
Haiti Earthquake & the HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) Induction Magnetometer – you will now see 3 images based on a time-frequency spectrogram, which shows the frequency content of signals recorded by the HAARP Induction Magnetometer. This instrument, provided by the University of Tokyo, measures temporal variations in the geomagnetic field in the ULF (ultra-low frequency) range of 0-5 Hz. The spectrogram images are produced by computing the PSD (power spectral density) of successive 102.4-second segments of timeseries data, and plotting these spectra as color/intensity slices along a 24-hour scale. Audio files are created by converting the raw 10 Hz sampled waveform (Bx channel) to a wav file at 44.1 kHz (resulting in a playback speedup of 4410 times), and then compressing the 1.7MB wav file to a 150KB mp3 file.
HAARP Induction Magnetometer:
http://137.229.36.30/cgi-bin/scmag/disp-scmag.cgi?date=20100110&Bx=on
It is a time-frequency spectrogram, which shows the frequency content of signals recorded by the HAARP Induction Magnetometer. This instrument, provided by the University of Tokyo, measures temporal variations in the geomagnetic field in the ULF (ultra-low frequency) range of 0-5 Hz. The spectrogram images are produced by computing the PSD (power spectral density) of successive 102.4-second segments of timeseries data, and plotting these spectra as color/intensity slices along a 24-hour scale.
The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake. Its epicentre was near Léogâne, approximately 25 km (16 miles) west of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The earthquake occurred at 16:53:10 local time (21:53:10 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010,[4][5] at a depth of 13 km (8.1 miles). The United States Geological Survey recorded a series of at least 33 aftershocks, fourteen of them between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9.
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HAITI EARTHQUAKE ORIGINAL VIDEO Security cameras at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince
Please Share this Video and Embed. HAITI EARTHQUAKE ORIGINAL VIDEO Security cameras at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince record the Haiti earthquake on 12 January as the ground starts to shake and a building in the distance crumbles to the ground. Video provided to us courtesy U.S. State Department
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Chile: Restoring Hope
News about the Church of God in Chile after the earthquakes.
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Haiti Earthquake Aftermath
“CBS News RAW”: daytime pictures of the aftermath of the Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti. There were crying victims among the downed buildings.
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