[net-gold] DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : COUNTRIES: HAITI: Much of Haiti's Capital Destroyed by Earthquake
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DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES :
COUNTRIES: HAITI:
Much of Haiti's Capital Destroyed by Earthquake
Much of Haiti's Capital Destroyed by Earthquake
By Jonathan M. Katz
The Associated Press
Denver Post
<http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_14176696>
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti The capital largely has been destroyed in the most
powerful earthquake to hit the country in about 240 years.
Associated Press journalists described severe and widespread casualties
after a tour of streets where blood and bodies could be seen.
The damage is staggering even in a country accustomed to tragedy and
disaster. AP reporters say the National Palace is a crumbled ruin, and
tens of thousands of people are homeless.
Many gravely injured people were sitting in the street, pleading for
doctors, hours after the quake. In public squares, thousands of people
were singing hymns and holding hands.
The 7.0-magnitude quake struck at 4:53 p.m. Tuesday, leaving large numbers
of people missing.
Communications were widely disrupted, making it impossible to get a full
picture of damage as powerful aftershocks shook a desperately poor nation
where many buildings are flimsy. Electricity was out in some places.
Karel Zelenka, a Catholic Relief Services representative in Port-au-
Prince, told U.S. colleagues before phone service failed that "there must
be thousands of people dead," according to spokeswoman Sara Fajardo.
"He reported that it was just total disaster and chaos, that there were
clouds of dust surrounding Port-au- Prince," Fajardo said from the group's
offices in Maryland.
"Serious loss of life"
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in Washington that embassy
personnel "reported structures down. They reported a lot of walls down.
They did see a number of bodies in the street and on the sidewalk that had
been hit by debris. So clearly, there's going to be serious loss of life
in this."
An Associated Press videographer saw the wrecked hospital in Petionville,
a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home to many diplomats and
wealthy Haitians, as well as many poor people.
The U.N. peacekeeping mission's headquarters fell and a
Haitians rush to free a woman caught in a building's rubble Tuesday in
Port-au-Prince. Gravely injured people sat in the street waiting for help
hours after a strong quake. Many people were missing. (Lisandro Suero,
AFP/Getty Images)large number of U.N. workers were missing, the
peacekeeping chief said late Tuesday.
<snip>
Hotline for family
The State Department has set up a hotline for Americans seeking
information about family members in Haiti. The toll-free number is
888-407-4747
JANUARY 13, 2010, 1:41 P.M. ET
Thousands Feared Dead in Haiti
By JOSDE CDOBA And DAVID LUHNOW
Wall Street Journal
International aid groups scrambled to deliver food, medicine and other
supplies to Haiti, where the strongest earthquake in more than two
centuries has toppled buildings and raised fears that thousands are dead.
Haitian President Rene Preval described the devastation as "unimaginable,"
in an interview with the Miami Herald. He called for quick international
action.
"Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have
collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed,'' Mr. Preval told The Herald. "There
are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.''
Other Haitian officials gave much higher estimates of the death toll --
though those estimates were based on the extent of the destruction rather
than counts of the dead.
Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told CNN: "I believe we are well over
100,000,'' while leading senator Youri Latortue told the Associated Press
that 500,000 could be dead. Both admit they have no way of knowing.
U.S. ships and disaster-relief teams prepared to deploy to the Caribbean
nation, as a range of governments, including the U.K., France and China,
pledged relief, officials said. United Nation's workers readied supply
planes, and the International Red Cross mobilized emergency stocks kept in
the region.
The partial collapse of communications and other infrastructure has
hindered efforts to assess the damage of the magnitude-7 earthquake. But
terrifying reports, including photos, of collapsed buildings and buried
bodies have heightened concern that the destruction is extensive.
The quake struck just 10 miles southwest of the impoverished nation's
teeming capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
Witnesses there reported seeing dead bodies in the rubble, and hearing
cries for help.
Photographs depict a devastated city, broken into chunks of rubble and
blanketed by the white dust of collapsing concrete and brick.
Nations, aid groups scramble to provide Haiti earthquake relief January
13, 2010 -- Updated 1802 GMT (0202 HKT)
CNN International
<http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/13/haiti.aid.response/>
(CNN) -- A spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross
warned Wednesday that up to 3 million people may have been affected by
Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti as aid organizations and governments
deployed response teams and pledged resources to the disaster-stricken
Caribbean nation.
Paul Conneally, speaking from Switzerland, said Red Cross field workers on
the ground were being hindered by severe infrastructural damage following
the 7.0-magnitude quake.
He said there was a "48-hour window" to support search and rescue efforts
and "reinforce emergency health services." Field hospitals would ease the
strain on the overwhelmed Haitian health infrastructure, he added.
Humanitarian charity Oxfam said it was rushing rescue teams to the country
from around the region to provide clean water, sanitation, shelter and
emergency supplies and called for donations to fund its efforts.
Kristie van de Wetering, a former Oxfam employee based in the Haitian
capital Port-au-Prince, said the situation in the capital was "very
chaotic" with many buildings reduced to rubble.
"We can hear people calling for help from every corner. The aftershocks
are ongoing and making people very nervous," she said.
Other groups including Medicins Sans Frontieres have also deployed teams
on the ground amid what local officials described as a "catastrophe of
major proportions."
Countries from around the world including the U.S., France, Cuba and China
also pledged support.
The U.S. Agency for International Development should have an emergency
response team on the ground by early afternoon local time as U.S. embassy
staff reported that the country's main airport was operable again, U.S.
State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said.
Impact Your World
Haiti faces devastation
CNN International
<http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/>
How you can help:
International Medical Corps
Direct Relief International
World Vision
International Relief Teams
Ye Haiti
American Red Cross
Operation USA
CARE
Catholic Relief Services
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World Concern
Save the Children
UNICEF USA
Mercy Corps
Operation Blessing International
Shelterbox
Americares
Operation USA
Doctors Without Borders
Medical Teams International
The International Committee of the Red Cross
The Salvation Army
More ways to help victims of NATURAL DISASTERS
<http://edition.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/impact/natural.disasters.html>
Haiti Quake Devastation Prompts Global Response
Michael Bowman |
Washington
13 January 2010
Voice of America
<http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/americas/
Haiti-Quake-Devastation-Prompts-Global-Response--81335907.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/ykf7lou>
Untold numbers of Haitians are dead, trapped in rubble or missing after
the country's worst earthquake in two centuries. The international
community has sprung into action to provide emergency aid for the
impoverished Caribbean nation, where as many as three million people are
believed to have been affected by Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude temblor that
struck outside the capital, Port-au-Prince.
Haitian streets have become impromptu morgues, with grief-stricken
survivors lining roads with bodies even as trapped survivors continue to
scream for help.
Frank Thorp, the husband of an American aid worker in Haiti, described the
scene on NBC's "Today" program.
"There are dead people, there are people dying on the streets. There are
injured on the streets. There are so many people here that need help," he
said.
The national palace, Port-au-Prince's main hospital, and the headquarters
of the U.N. mission in Haiti are among thousands of structures that
collapsed, inflicting a death toll that could take weeks to compile. More
than 100 U.N. personnel are unaccounted for.
Nadeje Pamphile, who lives on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, spoke with
VOA by telephone.
"In my house, the walls are cracked. Thankfully, my immediate family is
OK, but my grandmother's house collapsed, and a brother and a nephew are
under the rubble. They are trapped. We can hear their voices, but we
cannot reach them yet."
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