Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Haiti Smashed With Strongest Earthquake in Over Two Hundred Years

Smashed may be an understatement. The damage is so extensive that not much information is getting out except for the phrase 'total devastation' over and over again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cb_haiti_earthquake

"The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaging the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings. U.S. officials reported bodies in the streets and an aid official described "total disaster and chaos."
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The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince at a depth of 5 miles (8 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Survey said. USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti. In 1946, a magnitude-8.1 quake struck the Dominican Republic and also shook Haiti, producing a tsunami that killed 1,790 people.
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