Earthquake Rocks Caribbean Island of Haiti

"The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaging the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings. U.S. officials reported bodies in the streets and an aid official described "total disaster and chaos. Communications were widely disrupted, making it impossible to get a full picture of damage as powerful aftershocks shook a desperately poor country where many buildings are flimsy. Electricity was out in some places. A day after the great Haiti earthquake, the country's president, Rene Preval, speculated that 30-50,000 people may have died, though officials conceded there was no real way to make an estimate amid the chaos in the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere."


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Haiti has been through trauma since 2004, from coup d'etat to hurricanes, now earthquakes.


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