A major earthquake struck southern Haiti on Tuesday, knocking down buildings and power lines and inflicting what its ambassador to the United States called a catastrophe for the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation."I can do is pray and hope that only the best" ambassador, Raymond Joseph Alcide, CNN is told.
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7.0 magnitude quake - Haiti affected in the most powerful of the Century - 5 am just before 10 miles (15 ㎞) southwest of Port-au-Prince was the center, United States Geological Survey report. It is powerful eastern Cuba could be felt 200 miles away witnesses said.
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Mike Godfrey, U.S. agent for the United States and international organizations working for development, "a huge column of dust and smoke over the city," an earthquake has risen to the minute - "completely covered with a blanket, and forging of the town about 20 minutes.
Witnesses and the residence of the president and the nearby homes, including three centuries of capital by the damaged buildings and hospitals collapsed in the AP reports. President René Préval, Joseph said, but the safety of the dead and wounded on Tuesday completely expected.
Official home of the government, "the right side of the street on the left side of the street and say, yes," he said.
"He is a great size angyida disasters," said Joseph.
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Frank Williams, director of the Haitian Relief Agency World Vision International Earthquake "pretty much screams" People around Port-au-Prince is alive. Building from the agency about 35 seconds, "shaking off some of the stuff in the building," he said.
Our staff, "no one was hurt, but many walls are," said Williams. "Most of our employees to leave, because the buildings are in the street walls and a private house was a failure, so it's pretty much the most significant efforts of the traffic was blocked."
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Government of Haiti by the United Nations peacekeeping forces ousted former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in 2004 and is supported by the establishment since.
UN peacekeeping mission headquarters in Port-au-Prince, UN officials told CNN in an interview that was destroyed.
A large number of personnel still unaccounted for if the building is death, or immediate reports of injuries, but Alain Le Roy, Vice President for the 9000 Brazilian-led peacekeeping mission members, the Force, "For a moment can have."
Outside the capital, Cayes many people in the southwestern city of Les hurried to the school, were wounded Rev. Kesner Ajax, is director of the school. The collapse of the two houses and churches in the area at the top of the village, he said, but he was not dead.
Les Cayes, about 400,000 people in about 140 miles (225 km) southwest of Port-au-Prince is one.
Earthquake) underground, according to Geological Survey of about 6 miles (10 kilometers happens - it can produce severe vibrations in the depths. At least 10 aftershocks, including two Level 5 range, followed by the USGS reported.
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Jean Bernard, a witness in Port-au-Prince, said the city had no electricity Tuesday evening. Said the first bucket Earthquake 35-40 seconds.
"The house a lot [and] the building down, and people are still out on the streets," said Bernard. "People for their wives, their husbands and their children looking to find. It's very scary."
Luke Renner of the total stay in the United States - Hatien, his home, he "began to shake the whole world was about 100 miles north of the city to the Port-au-Prince said."
"It felt like our whole house had to balance a ball on the beach" reneohaetda. "Our society is full of screams and distortion of the entire 20 to 30 seconds to close the window."
"I've seen here have no structural damage," reneohaetda. "The sun can be difficult to set up this morning. We will definitely know."
Also because of the proximity of the earthquake and it is a densely populated urban poor housing is built, "it could lead to serious accidents," Jian Lin, Massachusetts, a senior geologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute obey.
President Obama in Washington with the U.S. government "help people in Haiti are ready." Humanitarian aid sent from the U. S. Ministry of Defense is preparing, but not sure how or where it has not been sent. Airlines American source-port-au-Prince International Airport control tower, perhaps efforts to fly relief supplies to intervene in the country collapsed.
State and Hillary Clinton in Washington, "Our full support" was provided to Haiti. "
Haiti, David Lind Wall Deputy Head of Mission in the United States, that he "Earthquake damage to U.S. officials saw" a serious loss of life expectancy, said Clinton, "said Crowley.
And man Clinton, former President Bill Clinton - UN Special Envoy for Haiti now - what on earth and our bodies in their relief and rehabilitation efforts to help rebuild the Haitian people doing the best I can, "he said. "
Especially in the United States of Haiti's commercial, political, military and most of the last century. Under President Clinton the power of intervention in the United States 1994, Aristide after a coup in 1991, and U.S. fighter jets him back to his country in 2004 against the government of fraud is spreading rapidly restored after elevation.
Disasters happen to the old country is about 9 million, the estimated size of Maryland. It is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and is one of the poorest countries in the world.
People and fuel wood strip farming, mountainous countryside to the country is clearly highly deforested. This is a serious erosion, and large-scale vulnerable to heavy rains landslides are on the left Haiti said.
Hurricane Georges in 1998, while more than 400 deaths and destroyed most crops in the country of Hurricane Gordon in 1994 killed more than 1,000. And Hurricane Frances in the 2004 and more than 3,000 people north of Haiti through the northwestern city of Gonaives was slain, most of the dead.
Bad weather in Gonaives 2008 when 10 4 to the system was right.
Moreover child-tier schools in November 2008, the collapse of more than 90 people were slain and 150 wounded - Disaster officials blame poor design.
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In addition, a Haitian school collapsed in November 2008, killing more than 90 people and injuring 150 -- a disaster authorities blamed on poor construction.
Eighty percent of Haiti's population lives under the poverty line, according to the CIA World Factbook.
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