Haiti Earthquake Video - Haiti’s Worst Earthquake in 200 Years.
Posted by Anvin on 13th January, 2010
On Tuesday at 4:53pm, Haiti experienced the worst earthquake ever in more than 200 years. The earthquake was so severe that it collapsed a hospital and heavily damaged the National Palace, UN peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings.
Disruption of the communications due to earthquake made it impossible to get a clear picture of damage as powerful aftershocks shook a desperately poor country where many buildings are flimsy. In some places of Haiti, there was no electricity. The poverty stricken nation has a population of 9 million people and are desperately poor, and after struggling for political instability for many years, it has no real construction standards
Karel Zelenka, a Catholic Relief Services representative said `They 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,” Felix Augustin, Haiti’s consul general in New York, said “Buildings collapsed all over the place,” he said. “We have lives that are destroyed. … It will take at least two or three days for people to know what’s going on.”
According to US Geological Survey, the magnitude of earthquake was recorded at 7.0 on the Richter scale and was centered about 15 kilometers towards the west of Port-au-Prince. The earthquake was reported to be the strongest ever since 1770 by USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano in Haiti. In the year 1946, a magnitude-8.1 quake had shook the Dominican Republic and Haiti and killed 1,790 people.
Haiti earthquake video:
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