Thu, Jan 14th 2010, 11:49
The Haiti Earthquake has left 3 million people in need of food, clean water and shelter after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked the capital Port-au-Prince on Monday 11 January 2010.
The Haiti earthquake has been one of the most severe natural disasters to strike, comparable in magnitude to the Asian tsunami which saw 200,000 casualties 5 years ago. At this stage it is estimated that 100,000 people have been killed by the Haiti earthquake.
Haiti capital Port-au-Prince has been flattened - the presidential palace and other major buildings including hospitals are rubble and tens of thousands of people are still feared buiried under it. Communication networks are down and the airport's control tower is out of action, causing added problems for Aid workers who have begun streaming in from all over the world. Haitians have spent the last few days out of doors with no food and no clean drinking water. Hospitals and medical personnel are struggling to keep up with the stream of injured people needing attention.
The 7.0 magnitude quake struck just 10 miles from Haiti's capital and the impact was felt throughout the Caribbean from Cuba to Jamaica and as far as Florida and Venezuela. The quake took place on the boundary of the Caribbean tectonic plate and the North American tectonic plate, a zone that shifts apart by 20mm each year. The quake occurred relatively shallow, under land rather than ocean, which is the reason for the mass devastation that it caused.
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