Haiti earthquake death toll rises to 230,000

Haiti’s government says about 230,000 people died in last month’s earthquake, 18,000 more than its previous estimate. The toll from the 12 January quake is approaching that of the 2004 Asian tsunami, which killed 250,000 people. Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said the toll was not definitive. About 300,000 were injured. But later, Interior Minister [...]

Haiti earthquake death toll reaches 150,000

The confirmed death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake had risen above 150,000 in the Port-au-Prince area alone, a government minister had said. Communications Minister Jocelyn Lassegue said the count was based on bodies collected in and around the capital by state company CNE. Many more bodies remain uncounted under rubble in the capital, including the [...]

Safety Precautions for Earthquakes

After the catastrophe that had happened to Haiti just last week because of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that hit the island leaving more than 110,000 people dead, devastated buildings and houses and more than 70,000 people injured, most of us are seeking for some safety measures when an earthquake is happening. These are some safety [...]

Banks reopen in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Many bank branches collapsed in the earthquake after the Haiti quake last January 12 and won’t be reopening soon, if ever. But banks that had doors to open did so Saturday, attracting long lines of anxious and sometimes desperate people in a city where ATMs haven’t been working since the earthquake. United Nations troops keep [...]

Telethon raises $57 million for Haiti

The “Hope for Haiti Now” telethon, a US telethon to help raise funds for Haiti earthquake victims, which led by George Clooney and Haiti-born rapper Wyclef Jean, has raised more than $57 million for relief to the earthquake-ravaged country, organizers said on Saturday. They called the $57 million a record for public donations in a [...]

110,000 Confirmed dead in Haiti quake

More than 110, 000 people have been confirmed dead in the Haiti earthquake which struck January 12, with Reichter scale magnitude of 7.0. Nearly twice as much as the government’s previous estimate of 75,000 killed. The government has put the death toll from the devastating earthquake at 11,499, with an estimated 193,691 people injured and [...]

Rescue operations in Haiti declared “over”

After the rescue operations done in the devastated capital city of Port-au-Prince due to a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck on January 12, The United Nations says Haiti’s government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over. This announcement came after rescue teams have pulled two people, an 84-year-old woman, and [...]

Haiti earthquake orphans thousands

Over thousands of children have been orphaned by the earthquake, aid groups have reported. The number orphans is said t be so high, a number has still not been ventured. The number of children is reported to have increased as the rescue teams continue to dig under the rubble of the collapsed buildings. The chaos [...]

More survivors in Haiti quake rubble found

Against increasingly high odds, search teams and rescue workers around the capital city of Port-Au-Prince in Haiti, have found more survivors under the rubble. On Friday, the fourth day of recovery efforts after a magnitude 7.0 quake that toppled countless homes and buildings, British firefighters pulled a 2-year old girl from a fallen building. Seven [...]

Briton confirmed dead in Haiti earthquake

United Nations worker Frederick Wooldridge has been confirmed as the first British man who have died in the Haiti earthquake which hit last Tuesday. His family paid tribute to him saying he “loved” his work with the UN where he was  a Senior Political Affairs and Planning officer. They said, “Frederick was a much-loved member [...]

11-year-old girl died after being saved

Port-au-Prince, Haiti “Mother, don’t let me die.” This is the last words the girl told her mother, as her uncle told on reports. Televiewers all over the world have witnessed how rescuers tried to free this 11-year-old Haitian girl from her collapsed home in Port-au-Prince on Thursday. But her story came to a tragic end [...]