Hundreds of Thousands Died on Massive Haiti Earthquake
Posted in Headlines, Nature Force Disaster on January 13th, 2010 by Michael Aldridge – Be the first to comment
Hundred of Thousands People died on Massive Haiti Earthquake. This was confirmed by Haiti Prime Minister.
Haitian authorities said the powerful quake destroyed most of the capital city of Port-au-Prince.
A top envoy called it a “major catastrophe.”
Haiti’s first lady, Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour, reported that “most of Port-au-Prince is destroyed” and that many government buildings had collapsed, Haiti’s ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph, told CNN Wednesday morning. Delatour said President René Préval was all right, Joseph reported.
Rescue crews were racing Wednesday morning to fully assess the damage in the teeming hillside city, where toppled buildings killed and injured an untold number of people and trapped others in the rubble.
The U.S. State Department has been told to expect “serious loss of life,” spokesman P.J. Crowley said, though precise casualty estimates were not immediately available.
About 3 million people — one-third of Haiti’s population — were affected by the quake, the Red Cross estimated.
The 7.0 Magnitude Haiti Earthquake is the most devastating earthquake in Haiti in 200 years.