Thursday, January 14, 2010

Haiti earthquake devastation 'immense'


Haiti earthquake devastation 'immense'
As the scope of the devastation from a magnitude-7.0 earthquake became clearer Wednesday, survivors spoke in terms of all that has disappeared. Most hospitals, houses, schools, roads and grocery stores — virtually every necessity of basic life — were transformed into piles of rubble.

Haiti Despairs as Quake Deaths Mount
WSJ-Cries from victims entombed beneath concrete debris pierced the air of seemingly every street in this crowded capital Wednesday, where shocked residents carried the injured and the dead a day after the nation was hit by a quake that some estimate has killed more than 100,000 people.

Haiti earthquake had been predicted for years
The earthquake in Haiti surprised South Floridians who didn't expect earthquakes in the Caribbean. But geologists had been sounding the alarm for some time

Race against time for Haiti earthquake aid
Millions of desperate Haitians were still waiting today for the arrival of a huge international effort to find and treat survivors from an earthquake that has left the streets of Port-au-Prince strewn with corpses

Haiti Earthquake Overwhelms Medical Workers

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