Two days after the magnitude 7.0
earthquake struck beneath Port-au-Prince, Haiti, some of the massive
damage is becoming more apparent. Rescue teams are arriving, aid groups
are trying their best to battle huge logistical challenges, bodies are
being identified, and some medical care is being given. Rescue teams
from all over the world have joined the recovery effort, as the United
States pledged $100 million in relief efforts. The Red Cross ventured
an estimate of up to 50,000 deaths, as bodies at the local morgues
overflowed into the streets.
1.Two
year old Redjeson Hausteen Claude reacts to his mother Daphnee Plaisin,
after he was rescued from a collapsed home by Belgian and Spanish
rescuers in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake in Port-au-Prince,
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.
2.Rescue
dogs are seen in their enclosure before leaving for Haiti at the
Torrejon military airbase in Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain, Wednesday Jan.
13, 2010. Firefighters without Borders, the International Red Cross and
other aid groups said they are preparing a major disaster relief effort
in Haiti after a powerful earthquake struck the capital.
3.Men
try to reach trapped survivors at the Montana hotel that collapsed
after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, in this United Nations handout
taken January 12, 2010. The number of U.N. military and police
officials confirmed to have been killed in the Haiti earthquake now
stands at 22, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday.
Picture taken January 12.
4.A
woman grimaces while receiving treatment on January 14, 2010, at an ad
hoc medical clinic at the MINUSTAH logistics base following a
devastating earthquake that rocked Port au Prince, Haiti, on January
12, 2010.
5.A woman walks among debris in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.
6.In
this handout image provided by the United Nations, Haitians set up
impromtu tent cities thorough the capital after an earthquake measuring
7.0 rocked the Haitian capital just before 5 pm yesterday, on January
13, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Much of Port-au-Prince was reduced
to rubble by the quake on January 12, but the airport was operational,
opening the way for international relief aid to be ferried in by air as
well as by sea.
7.The
downtown core shows the damage after an earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked
the Haitian capital just before 5 pm yesterday, on January 13, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
8.An earthquake survivor sits by a fire in the street in Port-au-Prince, late
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010.
9.In
this photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010, and released by the Philippine
Mission to the United Nations, members of the 10th Philippine
Peacekeeping Contingent serving with the United Nations Stabilization
Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) help in search and rescue efforts at the
collapsed U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince, where a number of staff
members and peacekeepers, including three from the Philippines, remain
trapped more than a day after a powerful earthquake struck the capital
city.
10.Medical
staff members treat an injured man at an ad hoc medical clinic at the
MINUSTAH logistics base following a devastating earthquake that rocked
Port au Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010.
11.A
man holds a child in a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in the
31 Delmar neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.
Afraid to spend the night in their homes, most residents are camping
out after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday.
12.Handout
photo provided on January 14, 2010 by the U.S. Coast Guard shows a
sunken crane, destroyed warehouse and containers toppled over in the
port of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 13, 2009.
13.Local
residents stand amidst the ruins of their hometown hours after the
earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010.
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14.kin
peels away from a badly injured victim as they wait for medical
assistance after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010.
15.A
girl lies trapped between her bed and the roof of her house January 13,
2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
16.A
man covers the body of his colleague recovered from the rubble of a
destroyed building after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince January 14,
2010.
17.The
legs of a corpse are seen among the rubble of a hotel destroyed by
massive earthquake that rocked Haiti in Port-au-Prince on January 13,
2010.
18.A
dead victim is seen inside the trunk of a car after an earthquake in
Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010.
19.People
look at earthquake victims lying on the street in the aftermath of a
7.0-magnitude earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010.
20.A
Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 aerial photo provided by The American Red
Cross shows survivors gathered around bodies in Haiti's capital
Port-au-Prince during a joint Red Cross Red Crescent/ECHO (European
Community Humanitarian Organization) aerial assessment mission
following Tuesday's devestating earthquake.
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21.A
man steps carefully through lifeless bodies piled outside the morgue in
Port-au-Prince on January 14, 2010, following a devastating earthquake
that rocked Haiti on January 12.
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22.A
man surveys hundreds of bodies of earthquake victims at the morgue in
Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.
23.Residents
look at destroyed buildings after a major earthquake hit the capital
Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. The death toll in Haiti's catastrophic
earthquake could run to tens of thousands, President Rene Preval said
on Wednesday, a day after the quake demolished schools, hospitals,
houses and hillside shanties across the crowded and impoverished
capital.
24.An
injured girl lies on the side of the road as she is attended to the day
after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Wednesday, Jan. 13,
2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday.
25.Local
residents wander amidst the ruins of their hometown hours after the
earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince January 13, 2010. More than 100,000
people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous
earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in
ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. With thousands of people
missing, dazed survivors in torn clothes wandered through the rubble as
more than 30 aftershocks rocked the ramshackle capital, where more than
two million people live, most in the grip of poverty.
26.A
photo released on January 14, 2010 from the UN Minustah mission of An
aerial view of flattened buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince following
a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010.
27.The
hand of a dead student is seen under the rubble of St. Gerard church
and school that collapsed in an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,
Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Teachers and students are trapped underneath
the rubble since Tuesday when a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti.
28.Pedestrians
walk along a street destroyed by a massive earthquake that rocked
Haiti, in Port-au-Prince on January 13, 2010.
29.A
woman leaves a partially destroyed building where the body of another
woman, left, lies under the rubble in the 31 Delmas neighborhood in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010.
30.A
photo released on January 14, 2010 from the UN Minustah mission of an
aerial view of a flattened shanty town in Port-au-Prince following a
devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010.
31.Karim
Applon, 7, sits on his aunt's lap while waiting to be evacuated for
medical treatment, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010, in Port-au-Prince.
32.Christopher
Holmes from the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue searches for
survivors in the rubble of a building on January 14, 2010 in
Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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