Mother Earth Strikes Haiti

[6souls]

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A 7.0-magnitude earthquake which struck off the coast of Haiti is feared to have caused major loss of life in and around the capital, Port-au-Prince.

Haiti's worst quake in two centuries seriously damaged the HQ of the UN mission in Haiti and a "large number" of its personnel are reported missing.

The national palace and a hospital are among other buildings badly damaged, and rescuers are digging under rubble.

Haiti's envoy to the US said it was a "catastrophe of major proportions".

The quake, which struck about 15km (10 miles) south-west of the capital, was quickly followed by two strong aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5 magnitude.

The tremor hit at 1653 (2153 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. Phone lines to the country failed shortly afterwards.

A Reuters reporter in Port-au-Prince, Joseph Guyler Delva, said he had seen "dozens of dead and injured people" in the rubble of fallen buildings.

Karel Zelenka, a Catholic Relief Services representative in Port-au-Prince, told colleagues in the US "there must be thousands of people dead".

The aid worker had managed to phone his colleagues before communication links went down.

The BBC's Nick Davies in neighbouring Jamaica says the ground apparently shook for more than a minute in Haiti.

Local people, he said, were using anything they could get their hands on - including farm equipment - to help release those trapped in the quake.

Our correspondent adds that, as the poorest country in the western hemisphere, Haiti is likely to need international aid in order to cope with the quake's impact.

'Three million affected'

In a statement issued in New York, the UN said that its local HQ in Haiti had "sustained serious damage along with other UN installations".

"A large number of personnel remain unaccounted for," it added.

The UN stabilisation mission plays a vital role in ensuring security in Haiti.

Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the US, told CNN: "I think it is really a catastrophe of major proportions."

He said he had just spoken to a government colleague in Port-au-Prince:

"He had to stop his car just about half an hour ago, and take to the streets, start walking, but he said houses were crumbling on the right side of the street and the left side of the street.

"He does not know whether he would reach his home, not knowing what he would find, because he had a bridge to cross to get there."

Mike Blanpied of the US Geological Survey said that, based on the location and size of the quake, about three million people will have been severely shaken by its impact.

"This quake occurred under land as opposed to off-shore, so a lot of people were directly exposed to the shaking coming off that earthquake fault, which was quite shallow," he told the BBC.

He added that as the quake had occurred near a highly populated urban area, the aftershocks could cause additional damage to already shaken buildings.

US President Barack Obama said in a statement that his "thoughts and prayers" were with the people of Haiti and America stood ready to assist them.

'Rubble and wire'

An Associated Press cameraman saw the wrecked hospital in Petionville, a hilly suburb of the capital, and Henry Bahn, a visiting official from the US Department of Agriculture, said he had seen houses which had tumbled into a ravine.

"Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken," said Mr Bahn, who described the sky as "just grey with dust".

He said he had been walking to his hotel room when the ground began to shake.

"I just held on and bounced across the wall," he said.

"I just hear a tremendous amount of noise and shouting and screaming in the distance."

He said rocks were strewn all over the place, and the ravine where several homes had fallen in was "just full of collapsed walls and rubble and barbed wire".

BBC News website readers in the Dominican Republic, which borders Haiti on the island of Hispaniola, said they had also felt the quake.

"My family is on the 8th floor of a tower in downtown Santo Domingo," wrote Max Levine.

"We felt a swaying of the building for 5-10 seconds. All the lamps were swinging. There was a 20-second pause and then another similar sway. We rushed out of the building with many others to the street."

In the immediate aftermath of the quake, a tsunami watch was put out for Haiti, Cuba and the Bahamas, but this was later lifted.

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[Dimmauk]

Mother Earth is sending Obama a message!

[Zalius]

[Qalbert]

Mother Earth doesn't care about black people.

[Furtwangler]

It's because KFC was debating discontinuing their fried chicken tenders.

[Chocoboy]

The arrival of Lootie has verified what many have previously thought: The earthquake which struck off the coast of Haiti is in fact a national disaster.
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[SephYuyX]

Didnt notice at first.. but lol..

[Khajit]

Whats even there to loot? As far as i know the entire country is a shithole that none of it's citizens are "legally" allowed to leave.

[Cleverness]

I expect my aunts and uncles in Dominican Republic to start complaining in about....3-4 weeks about the increase in Haitan immigrants sneaking into the country.

They are our Mexicans you know.

[Kuya]

And Dominicans are the mexicans of puerto rico. What a strange chain of abuse.

[Xno Kappa]

At least Dominican Republic is it's own country with it's own currency, not some glorified territory collecting welfare while sucking on the United State's tits.

Oh I went there...

[Kuya]

America has nice fat tits. I think i'll keep the tits.

[Xno Kappa]

America has nice fake tits. I think i'll keep the tits.

ftfy.

[Vajra]

What a stupid ass motherfucking thread, filled with atheist population control idealists bastards who don't care about human life. You should all go fuck yourselves you fucking fucks...I can't wait for a earthquake to flatten the Dominican Republic and then you'll have no aunt or uncle, and feel the pain of people in Haiti. Why doesn't the lazy Dominican Republic get off their asses and aid Haiti??? You're all lucky the earthquake's strong tremors didn't rupture past 15 miles along the fault line which passes through the entire island of Hispanola. A 7.0 Earthquake like this usually has the strong tremors rupture for about hundreds of miles.

You all need to get some God in your lives, and stop disrespecting the people who suffer, it's not their faults that they live in poverty. This is a nation that has suffered many natural disasters one after the other. They suffered 4 hurricanes in the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season, and recently paid off a big debt to the US for helping them recover from that. Now they'll be in more debt because of this catastrophic event.

I say, why post negative shit in a thread when you can show sympathy you inconsiderate fucks? Do you even realize that an Earthquake can happen ANYWHERE on Earth and are pretty much unpredictable??? Most Caribbean Islands aren't prepared for earthquakes (they don't have the equipment to keep constant measure of seismic activity like places such as Indonesia and California etc). Please show some respect people and pray for them, don't throw a bunch of shit when they are already going through deep pools of trouble.

This is a nation where people who live outside of the capital, eat mud pies. There's not much trees in Haiti or shrub. Rockslides probably happened and we won't know til daylight, to what extent the damage really is.

P.S: Fuck this mother earth/ mother nature bullshit. It can be metaphorical in some way, but the Earth did not create us, the Earth is not our mother, GOD is, we were created in the image and likeness of him, WE ARE GOD'S CHILDREN. I suggest you all pray for the Haitians and pray that what happened there doesn't happen where you live, because Earthquakes are probably the most unpredictable and damaging natural disasters. PEACE, ONE LOVE!

[Kuya]

lol

[Kuya]

No, i will pray to demons, and hope they destroy all the blacks!

[euph]

As soon as he mentioned god i thought about that new thread with the huge picture of the universe.

actually I wont lie, i skimmed his wall and god stuck out. Then i thought about it.

[Shiroikage]

And then Kuya was the blacks.

[6souls]

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[Chicomagiko]

lol