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Strongest earthquake in over 200 years rumbles, completely devastates Haiti
2010-01-14 04:24:52 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - Top Stories World News News)
Dallas, Texas (CaymanMama.com) — An incredibly severe earthquake rumbled beneath the ground in the island nation of Haiti on Thursday, killing thousands (with a steadily rising death toll), making it the strongest tremor to hit it in over 200 years.
The magnitude 7.0 earthquake caused an immense amount of damage, all of which cannot yet be completely characterized.
“Unfortunately, Haiti has a rather poor economy and not a wonderful building style for earthquake resistance, so we would expect that we would see quite severe and widespread damage from this earthquake,” Michael Blanpeid, associate coordinator for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, said in a podcast released Wednesday.
It has been reported that at least 3 million people have been affected and some newscasts say that it is hard for aid efforts to get to the injured. The Haitian presidential palace was completely destroyed.
President Barack Obama vowed to launch a full rescue and humanitarian effort, adding that the U.S. commitment to Haiti will be unwavering.
“We have to be there for them in their hour of need,” Obama said.
President Rene Preval painted a grim picture of the situation in Haiti:
“Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed. There are a lot of schools that have a lot of dead people in them.”
To donate to the rescue effort, log on to http://www1.networkforgood.org/help-haiti-quake-relief?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=NEWS.
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