Major Quake Hit Haiti

Major Quake Hit Haiti

Major Quake Hit Haiti

An earthquake of magnitude 7 on scale of Richter struck Tuesday Haiti evening, with only 8 miles west of Port-au-Prince. This major catastrophe in the poorest country of Americas lets fear the worst. The communications are practically cut towards island of the Caribbean, which counts 9 millions inhabitants, including 2 million in Port-au-Prince. In France,

" More than 100.000 morts". Haitian the Prime Minister Jean-max Bellerive affirmed with the American chain CNN it feared that the assessment of the powerful seism is not " well above 100.000 morts". But no official results could have been established Wednesday evening. Haitian president Rene Prval, for its part, announced with the American daily newspaper Miami Herald it feared that the seism made " thousands of morts" and the international community with l' called; helps. In a country with the very rudimentary infrastructures already, it became practically impossible to convey the casualties in the hospitals still upright. The seism most extremely since at least a century. Several hours after the violent jolt to 16:53, local time (22. 53, French hour), about thirty very violent counterparts were made feel, going with a magnitude of 5,9. The seism, of which epicentre was with 10 kilometers of depth, was so powerful qu' it was felt jusqu' in Guantanamo, located at approximately 300 kilometers of Port-au-Prince. Haiti had not known a jolt such a violence (it would have lasted more; one minute) since at least a century. " The center of Port-au-Prince destroyed east, is true a catastrophe", an inhabitant declared. Scenes of chaos add to those of plunderings. Haiti was struck these last years by a series of catastrophes, in particular by fatal hurricanes into 2008 which made more than 800 died and approximately a million disaster victims.

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