"A strong earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday morning, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by a previous quake," the Canadian Press reports. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the 6.1 magnitude...
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Rescue teams and aid groups headed to Haiti on Wednesday to offer help and "assess damage from a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake that crippled the island nation, severing communications with the outside world and crumbling countless buildings," the Miami Herald reports (Charles et al., 1/13)...
An initial $200,000 has been pledged by the American Red Cross to help communities affected by the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th. The American Red Cross says it is prepared to take further action as local responders inform about the situation. "Initial reports...
The earthquake was 7.0 or more (see Eruptions for info and discussion) and was not far from Port-au-Prince. Apparently damage is widespread and intense, and casualties high, but accurate information is limited because the information infrastructure was destroyed (see this for news details)...
At the moment, the only secular relief organization that indicates that they are on top of Haiti, and is a respected and effective organization, and so on and so forth, is Direct Relief International. Here is their web site.
UPDATE: If you are a US citizen and seek information on your...
The earthquake was 7.0 or more (see Eruptions for info and discussion) and was not far from Port-au-Prince. Apparently damage is widespread and intense, and casualties high, but accurate information is limited because the information infrastructure was destroyed (see this for news details)...
At the moment, the only secular relief organization that indicates that they are on top of Haiti, and is a respected and effective organization, and so on and so forth, is Direct Relief International. Here is their web site.
UPDATE: If you are a US citizen and seek information on your...
San Andreas fault fans, there's a new TED in town. The United States Geological Survey has developed the Twitter Earthquake Detection project, in an attempt to improve its handling of those natural disasters when they hit across the U.S.
The USGSted project relies firstly on an application...
I think there must of been an earthquake somewhere in england I felt my sofa shaking. I was setting with my legs folded reading a interesting noval on the sofa in my living room with my other brother and two sisters, they felt it as well. Did anyone else feel it?
P.S. I live in east london