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(EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Dead bodies from this week's devastating
earthquake lie in a pit January 16, 2010 in Titanyen, Haiti. Officials,
overwhelmed by the thousands of dead from the 7.0-strong earthquake on January
12 earthquake, have resorted to burying the corpses without ceremony in
hastily-dug pits in a rural area outside of Port au Prince. Getty
(EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Dead bodies from this week's devastating
earthquake lie in a pile January 16, 2010 in Titanyen, Haiti. Getty
(EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT) A truck dumps rubble into a pit full of
the dead from this week's devastating earthquake January 16, 2010 in Titanyen,
Haiti. Getty
(EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Dead bodies from this week's devastating
earthquake lie in a pit January 16, 2010 in Titanyen, Haiti. Getty
(EDITOR'S NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT) Dead bodies from this week's devastating
earthquake lie in a pile January 16, 2010 in Titanyen, Haiti. Getty
Haitians rush to pick up water being dropped from a Navy helicopter as help
continues to arrive for victims of the massive earthquake January 16, 2010
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed
to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation
after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. Many buildings
were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. Getty
U.S. citizens, Haitian-American citizens and Haitians with U.S. visas sit
onboard of a U.S. Hercules plane as they are evacuated in Port-au-Prince
January 16, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton assured Haiti's
quake-ravaged people on Saturday the United States would work with their
government to ensure the country emerges "stronger and better" after this
week's disaster. Reuters
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Note: First two photos below from April, 2009
A U.S. Navy SH-60 Seahawk helicopter, with Military Sealift Command hospital
ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), delivers pallets of medical supplies to a medical
community service project site in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, April 9, 2009, during
exercise Continuing Promise 2009. Continuing Promise is a four-month humanitarian
and civic assistance mission that providing medical and other services to
seven countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. (U.S. Army photo
by Spc. Nashaunda Tilghman/Released) Date Posted: 6/2/2009
Aerial shot of Killick, Haiti, taken April 11, 2009, chosen as one of the
community service project sites during exercise Continuing Promise 2009.
Continuing Promise is a four-month humanitarian and civic assistance mission
that providing medical and other services to seven countries throughout Latin
America and the Caribbean. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Landon Stephenson/Released)
Date Posted: 6/2/2009
Photo below from September 2008
Roads washed out due to recent hurricanes in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, are shown
Sept. 13, 2008. The amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) has been
diverted from its deployment in support of the humanitarian assistance mission
Continuing Promise 2008 to conduct hurricane relief operations in Haiti
coordinated by the U.S. Agency for International Development. (U.S. Navy
photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Joshua Adam
Nuzzo/Released) Date Posted: 9/16/2008
[Above and three below] Images of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan 15, 2010. Department
of Defense assets have been dispatched to Haiti to assist with humanitarian
assistance and disaster relief after a magnitude 7 earthquake hit the country
on Jan. 12, 2010. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper
Jr./Released) Date Posted: 1/16/2010
[Above and two below] Images of Toussaint L?Ouverture International Airport
in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan 15, 2010. Department of Defense assets have
been dispatched to Haiti to assist with humanitarian assistance and disaster
relief after a magnitude 7 earthquake hit the country on Jan. 12, 2010. (U.S.
Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr./Released) Date Posted:
1/16/2010
Shown here Jan. 15, 2010, is an aerial view of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following
a magnitude-7 earthquake that hit the city Jan. 12, 2010. Department of Defense
assets have been deployed to assist in the Haiti relief effort. (U.S. Air
Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr./Released) Date Posted: 1/16/2010
Shown here Jan. 15, 2010, is an aerial view of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following
a magnitude-7 earthquake that hit the city Jan. 12, 2010. Department of Defense
assets have been deployed to assist in the Haiti relief effort. (U.S. Air
Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr./Released) Date Posted: 1/16/2010
Shown here Jan. 15, 2010, is an aerial view of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following
a magnitude-7 earthquake that hit the city Jan. 12, 2010. Department of Defense
assets have been deployed to assist in the Haiti relief effort. (U.S. Air
Force photo by Tech. Sgt. James L. Harper Jr./Released) Date Posted: 1/16/2010
Shown here Jan. 14, 2010, is an aerial view from a U.S. Air Force RQ-4 Global
Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle of earthquake victims gathering in a soccer
field in Haiti. Aerial images are providing U.S. military planners situational
awareness as they coordinate U.S. military support to the Haiti relief effort.
(DoD photo courtesy of U.S. Southern Command/Released) Date Posted: 1/15/2010
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A C-130 transport plane carrying supplies flies past the tower on board the
USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier enroute to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January
15, 2010. Reuters
[Above and below] Bodies of earthquake victims lie outside the morgue in
Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. AP
People line up to receive aid arrived from the Dominican Republic in
Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. AP
In this handout image provided by the United Nations, bodies are stacked
along the road after the earthquake on January 15, 2010 in Port-au-Prince,
Haiti. Getty
Digital Globe Haiti Earthquake Satellite Imagery, 15 January 2010
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Haiti Earthquake Satellite Photos and Maps
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http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?id=52
Damage evaluation map based on satellite data over the Port-au-Prince area
of Haiti, following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks that
hit the Caribbean nation on 12 January. Map based on data from CNES's SPOT-5,
JAXA's ALOS and the U.S.-based GeoEye-1 satellites; processed by SERTIT. |