Haiti got a richter 7 earthquake

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A small boat pilots in front of the USNS Comfort, a floating medical treatment facility with 1,000 hospital beds, in the harbor of Port-au-Prince.

An Air Force C-130 drops humanitarian supplies to a drop zone near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. By Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr., U.S. Air Force via AP

People strugggle to stay in line for disaster relief supplies at the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division's distribution site in Port-au-Prince.

Anna Zizi is carried alive from the rubble by members of a Mexican search and rescue team, several of whom were in tears as they pulled the woman free. One week after the city was reduced to ruins, Zizi was rescued from the collapsed home of the parish priest at Port-au-Prince's Roman Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption

A destroyed Catholic church in Leogane

Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division march on the streets of Port-au-Prince. The soldiers landed in the center of the earthquake-ravaged capital and headed to a nearby hospital

 

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Haitian market vendors display their goods in Jacmel, a port city on Haiti's southern coast.

Haitian earthquake survivors transport a coffin in Port-au-Prince

Faced with severe shortages of food, water, shelter and basic sanitation needs, thousands queue up near a small port area to evacuate Port-au-Prince. By Win McNamee, Getty Images

People wait at Port-au-Prince's Toussaint Louverture International Airport to be evacuated by plane. By Adriano Machado, AFP/Getty Images

These orphans, whose orphanage was destroyed by the earthquake, will be taken to the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh for medical care and be placed in group homes until their adoptions are finalized.
By Gene J. Puskar, AP
Taken: 1/19/2010

 

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Haitians try to board flights at the airport to depart Port-au-Prince. By Marco Dormino, United Nations, via AFP
Taken: 1/20/2010

Haitian police beat a looter in Port-au-Prince.

Plainclothes police search a suspected looter while trying to secure a downtown area in Port-au-Prince.

Michel Chedler, 28, claimed that a mob of young men chased and beat him after they accused him of stealing a radio and boombox. He was dragged to the local Carrefour police station, where he was turned over to the Haitian National Police. By Jack Gruber, USA TODAY
Taken: 1/21/2010

Haitian earthquake victims chase a suspected looter in Port-au-Prince.

An orphaned child sleeps on the ground at the Maison des Enfants De Dieu orphanage in Port-au-Prince. Many countries have fast-tracked adoptions that were already in the works.

A Haitian policeman kicks a young man after briefly detaining and beating him in downtown Port-au-Prince as widespread looting took place.

 

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A Haitian policeman tries to prevent people from entering a section of the downtown area where others were searching for food from a collapsed supermarket in Port-au-Prince.

Bolivian U.N. peacekeepers distribute water and meals to children in Cite Soleil in Port-au-Prince.

People charge their cellphones in the street outside the damaged Radio Caraibes building in Port-au-Prince. Radio Caraibes provided power from its generator to help people, as cellphone service returns slowly to the devasted city.

Deep crevasses traverse the devastated seaport of Port-au-Prince.

Ex-Presidents

Band together for Aid

 

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The aircraft carrying Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou is loaded with relief supplies for a stop in Haiti, as he departed for a trip to Honduras, Monday, Jan. 25, 2010, at the Taoyuan International Airport in Taiwan. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou is traveling this week on a five-day visit to Central America and the Caribbean. He will also stop in California.

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou waves before departing the Taoyuan International Airport January 25, 2010. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will make two stops in the United States during a trip to take aid to earthquake-hit Haiti, a move likely to anger political rival China.

 

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Photojournalists surround a Haitian policeman as he aims his rifle at looters in downtown Port-au-Prince, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010

A Haitian policeman aims his shotgun at looters

A Haitian policeman aims into a crowd during looting

Children walk past a Haitian national policeman as he take position during a riot with looters in downtown Port-au-Prince

 

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A Haitian policeman disperses looters from stores

A man gestures to a Haitian policeman during looting in Port-au-Prince

A policeman chases people suspected of looting, on a street in Port-au-Prince January 21, 2010.

 

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Haitian police officers fold a Haitian national flag after recovering it from the ruins of the presidential palace in Port-au-Prince January 17, 2010

A woman runs as a police officer disperses looters from a commercial area in Port-au-Prince

A policeman take 5.

 

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In this photo released by MINUSTAH, a Haitian police officer points his gun to an alleged looter in downtown Port-au-Prince

Police handcuff looters downtown January 19, 2010 in Port Au Prince

Haitian police officer hides in rubble waiting for looters.>>>>> A looter throws a pack of undershirts down from a damaged building

 

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Police officers sit on a mattress across the street from their damaged police station in the aftermath of a massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010.

Police officers check the bag of a man in downtown Port-au-Prince

A police officer checks the bag of a woman

police officer points his gun at alleged looters

A police officer patrols a street on January 22, 2010 in downtown Port-au-Prince

 

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Haitian police officers patrol a street as debris burns in downtown Port-au-Prince

A police officer stands watch as a tire and battery store burns behind...

A police officer stands guard as a business owner unloads a store that was destroyed

A Haitian police officer chases off suspected looters

A Haitian police officer holds his rifle as he stands guard near businesses being looted

Haitian police points his gun at men who were caught looting

Haitian men who were caught looting in the collapsed stores are forced by police to kneel at a street in Port-au-Prince

 

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A Haitian man who was caught looting in the quake collapsed stores is forced by police to lay on the ground at a street of Port-au-Prince

A looter runs in and out of a destroyed store to get goods in downtown Port-au-Prince

 

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U.S. Marines wave to Haitians as they drive through the streets in Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010

An Indian FPU Officer (front) and U.N. peacekeepers secure the perimeter of a bank in downtown Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010.

An Indian FPU Officer (front) and Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers (back) secure the perimeter of a bank in downtown Port-au-Prince January 19, 2010

Brazilian U.N. peacekeepers secures the perimeter of a bank in downtown Port-au-Prince

 

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A U.S. soldier from the Army's 82nd Airborne moves people away from the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince

U.S. Army Pvt 1st Class Michael Segura, of the 82nd Airborne, left, is greeted by a man as he stands guard outside the cathedral in Port-au-Prince

A U.S. soldier gestures for people to sit down as they distribute disaster relief supplies in Port-au-Prince

US soldiers work to organize earthquake survivors who gathered for disaster relief supplies

A woman breaks through a line of US soldiers to reach disaster relief supplies

 

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Fabie Marc, 7, who was injured in the Haiti earthquake, tries to open a can of Vienna sausage as she sits in the United Nations field hospital in Port-au-Prince

Tamara Marc, 9, left, and her sister Fabie Marc

 

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A U.S. Army soldier walks near the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince

A U.S. soldier organizes people into a line outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince

Peruvian UN peacekeepers secure the entrance of an industrial area during a distribution of food by humanitarian workers from Dominican Republic in Port-au-Prince

A Brazilian U.N. peacekeeper stands next to a man who was shot dead by suspected robbers, according to Haitian police, in Port-au-Prince

A man yells at a Peruvian U.N. soldier to let him and others pass a barricade on a road leading to an industrial park containing food warehouses in Port-au-Prince

Peruvian U.N. peacekeepers push back a crowd trying to get past a barricade on a road leading to an industrial park containing food warehouses in Port-au-Prince

U.N. peacekeepers ride in a vehicle filled with boxes of food aid for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince

 

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Teenage girl rescued from Haiti rubble 15 days on (2010/01/28 08:41AM)

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* Girl was able to lie down in space between wall and door
* Haitians heard her voice and summoned rescue crew
* More than 130 people rescued alive since Jan. 12 quake

(Adds doctor saying girl expected to live)
By Joseph GuylerDelva
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 27 (Reuters) - A teenage girl was
pulled alive from under a collapsed house in Port-au-Prince on
Wednesday, 15 days after Haiti''s devastating earthquake.
She was severely dehydrated and had a leg injury but was conscious when she was dragged out of the rubble by French and
Haitian rescuers.
"I don''t know how she happened to resist that long. It''s a
miracle," said rescue worker J.P. Malaganne, adding that the
girl, named Darline, was happy, shocked andcrying.
"She will live. She is only 16 years old and she has her
whole life ahead of her," said Colonel Michel Orcel, a French
doctor. "We are providing the care she needs and she will be
OK."
Someone heard the girl''s voice and urged localRed Cross
and civil protection workers to send rescuers to the site, said
Stephan Sadak, a member of the French rescue team.
The girl was trapped between a collapsed wall and a door in
the remains of her home near a school in Haiti''s coastal capital, which was destroyed by a Jan. 12 earthquake.
"She was able to survive because she wasn''t crushed by the
rubble and there was a space where she could lie down," Sadak
told Reuters.
Rescuers did not know if she had water or food withher.
"It''s possible she may have had something, but not much," Sadak
said.
One man fed her candy as rescuers neared her and a throng
of neighbors cheered as she was pulled free 90 minutes after
they arrived.
More than 130 people have beenrescued from the rubble
since the quake hit, surprising experts who believed they would
not find so many survivors.
"It''s not at all usual. It''s exceptional," said Sadak.
Haitians are still appealing to search teams to go to new
sites.
"We are the best team in the world!" the elated crew
shouted in French after she was taken away by ambulance to a
field hospital.
(Writing by Doina Chiacu and Jane Sutton; Editing by Kieran
Murray)

Darlene Etienne, 17, rests at a French military field hospital after being rescued from a building in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010. French rescuers pulled the teenage girl out of the rubble 15 days after an earthquake hit the Caribbean capital. (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

 

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Lady Gaga Fans Raise $500,000 For Haiti
January 27th, 2010

Lady Gaga has thanked fans around the world after they helped her raise more than $500,000 or earthquake-ravaged Haiti - in a single day. The Poker Face singer dedicated January 24th to raising funds for the Caribbean country, pledging to donate proceeds from a New York concert and merchandise sold on her website.
At her concert at Purdue University, where she concluded the U.S. leg of her Monster Ball Tour, Lady Gaga announced the results of her fans' donations.
She told the audience, "On Gaga For Haiti day, in just 24 hours, with very minimal marketing and planning, all the little monsters all over the world made over half a million dollars for Haiti relief. I know Bravado fell off their chair, that's who sells all my merchandise - they couldn't believe it! So let's sing along for Haiti right now!"

 

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A medical team of Japan's Self-Defense Forces is sent off at Narita international airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, as about 100 members leave Japan for quake-devastated Haiti to join international rescue efforts

A Japan Air Self-Defense Force C-130 transport plane takes off from Komaki Base in Komaki, Aichi Prefecture (state), central Japan, for Miami to support the medical team to be dispatched to the quake-devastated Haiti. The plane with 24 ASDF personnel will be used to transport medical relief staff and supplies to the Caribbean nation from Miami, Kyodo News said.

 

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