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Wednesday, January 13, 2010haitinatural disastersworldamericas

Strong earthquake hits Haiti

The damage after an earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the Haitian capital Photograph: United Nations/guardian.co.uk Hundreds of people remain at public squares for security reason or after having lost their houses in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Orlando Barria/guardian.co.uk The first group of disaster relief personnel prepare in Beijing to depart for Haiti to help with the rescue following an earthquake Photograph: guardian.co.uk Haitians set up impromtu tent cities thorough the capital Photograph: United Nations/guardian.co.uk Gunsly Milsoit, left, comforts his brother-in-law Leo Pierre after Leo's wife and Gunsly's sister, Milsoit Kelly, who was three months pregnant, died in a four story building collapse Photograph: Gerald Herbert/guardian.co.uk A man trapped in a collapsed building responds to questions from rescue workers in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Julie Jacobson/guardian.co.uk A boy receives treatment at an ad hoc medical clinic at United Nations Stabilization Mission In Haiti's (MINUSTAH) logistics base Photograph: United Nations/guardian.co.uk A view of the Canape-Vert area after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk An injured person is seen after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti Photograph: Jorge Cruz/guardian.co.uk A view shows the badly damaged presidential palace Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk A woman lies on the ground as others stand outside a market that collapsed Photograph: Cris Bierrenbach/guardian.co.uk An injured resident waits for medical attention Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk Injured people rest outside Port-au-Prince's cathedral Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk A woman gets her make-shift bed ready to spend the night in the streets amongst all the other wounded Photograph: Frederic Dupoux/guardian.co.uk Residents sleep in the street after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk A injured child receives medical treatment after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk A injured resident waits for medical attention after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk Residents rest on the street after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Kena Betancur/guardian.co.uk Residents search for victims after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Eduardo Munoz/guardian.co.uk People search for survivors amongst the rubble of the Caribbean Super Market in Delmas in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Frederic Dupoux/guardian.co.uk People come to the aid of a wounded man Photograph: Frederic Dupoux/guardian.co.uk Women wait on the floor at the emergency clinic of Petionville in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Frederic Dupoux/guardian.co.uk Injured people are transported in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince Photograph: KPA/Zuma/guardian.co.uk A Haitian woman is helped after being trapped in rubble in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Lisandro Suero/guardian.co.uk People walk past damaged buildings in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Lisandro Suero/guardian.co.uk A body lies amid rubble in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Lisandro Suero/guardian.co.uk A television image shows a fire breaking out near a building, which was damaged in the earthquake in Port-au-Prince Photograph: guardian.co.uk A woman receiving assistance amid debris from a buiding in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Radioteleginenhaiti.com/guardian.co.uk A woman sits amid rubble in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Lisandro Suero/guardian.co.uk A father carries his injured daughter in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Frederic Dupoux/guardian.co.uk Injured people are tended to at Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Ivanoh Demers/guardian.co.uk A man carries an injured child outside Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince Photograph: Ivanoh Demers/guardian.co.uk An injured child is tended to at the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Photograph: Ivanoh Demers/guardian.co.uk

Source: The Guardian ↗

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