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A Survivor's Account of the Haiti Earthquake
Devastating psychological effects of the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti last long after ruble has been cleared. Hear a first-person account of the temblor and it's aftermath from Reginald, a college student in Port-au-Prince. “And in the first time I thought it was like a tractor- was doing something, uh something like pick garbage up, something like that. And after I feel like the house trembling up and in the moment my laptop was running away from the table and I saw it on the floor...."
A Survivor's Account of the Haiti Earthquake
Haiti Earthquake Damage
The earthquake has strike Haiti, the capital city, Port-Au-Prince on Tuesday, causing thousand of death but the death toll is yet to be known because many missing bodies are yet to be found....
Global Warming & Haiti Earthquake
What in the world is going on with global warming? Is there or isn't there, and if so why is so much of the planet now so cold?...
How Can We Prevent the Next Big Haiti Earthquake?
The Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010 was devastating, but history tells us that there could be more big ones in years to come. Port-Au-Prince sits exactly in the epicenter or hotspot of earthquake...
Cholera outbreak creeps closer to Haiti\'s capital
The number of death due to cholera is increasing rapidly. Already, 200 people died of cholera, and about 2000 people have been affected with cholera. All the necessary preparations to avoid a catastrophe out of this disease have been taken care of. A lot of people don\'t even know that there\'s a cholera epidemic....
Haiti Cholera
natural disaster always bring something bad, there is another disaster happened in the world. Hope more people in the world can do some help for them, Haiti....
Kobe Earthquake - Interview With A Survivor
The earthquake that struck Kobe (ko-bay), Japan, in 1995 registered 72 on the Richter scale and lasted twenty seconds......
Earthquake in Haiti Island Feared Citizens
On Tuesday afternoon, a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti Island. The earthquake happened in Petionville which is a suburb some 10 miles from Haiti capital Port-au-Prince. It damaged the island and isolated mo...
Haiti attacked by powerful earthquake
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook Haiti on Tuesday, causing several buildings to collapse in the poorest nation of the Western hemisphere<...
Haiti Still in Ruins One Year After Earthquake
Haiti Presidential Palace is still crumbled walls, Port-au-Prince- the city to more than 1million people still stays in sprawl rubble and cluttered tents. Haiti has been so devastated after one year the threatening earthquake caused the death to more than 300,000 people. Facing a great deal of hardships after the the earthquake\'s destruction including disease exposures, massive displacement, demolished infrastructure, the Haiti government and the international humanitarian community and locals have taken it into action. Despite wide mobilization and great efforts among thousands of aid agencies, missionary groups, and public agencies for Haiti\'s recovery, the country has caught series of problems and big challenges for the upcoming years. Below are the updated images of Haiti one year after the serious earthquake on January 12, 2010, raising the alarm about the reconstruction conditions....
Pictures of Haiti’s 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Win Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photograph
The Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news photography belongs to a trio of Washington Post photographers including Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti, who captured the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti over months. Guzy visited Port-au-Prince 24 hours after the 7.0 magnitude quake hit this country and thousands of Haitians asked for help beneath rubble. Kahn traveled Haiti over the ensuing months as the unrest and cholera epidemic swept out. Carioti arrived in August to document the continuing tragedy. The Haiti’s 2010 disastrous earthquake killed 316,000 people, injured 300,000 and made 1,000,000 homeless. Besides it is estimated that around 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed....
