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Haiti Earthquake, January 12, 2010

On January 12, 2010 a strong earthquake, measuring 7.0Mw hit approximately 10 miles (16 km) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Seasoned aid workers have said it's the worst devastation they have ever seen.

*Dr. Roger Searle from the Department of Earth Science at Durham University said that the damage in Port-au-Prince can be compared to the destruction that half a million of TNT would create, a magnitude 7 earthquake releases the energy equivalent of several nuclear bombs.

*That's 35 times more powerful that the atomic bomb that the US dropped in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.

The statistics are hard to imagine.
• 3 million people affected
• between 217,000 - 230,000 dead
• over 300,000 injured
• 1,909 Canadians located
• 22 Canadians unaccounted for
• 4,620 Canadians evacuated on 49 flights
• 44 Canadians confirmed dead
   (last updateed March 9, 2010 (4:00 p.m.))

The people that remain in Haiti are homeless, sick and starving. To make things worse almost half of Haiti's 10-million population are children under the age of 18.

Please join us in helping the people of Haiti to recover and rebuild by making a donation to any of the charities listed of this page, or by taking part in the fundraising efforts so many Ottawa businesses and residents have planned.

Just imagine, if we all take one minute to donate now, how many lives we can save.

Sylvia McConnell
for the Haiti Earthquake Information Team

(*stats from Wikipedia, Foriegn Affairs & newsjunkiepost.com)

Canadian Government Action

• Foreign Affairs & International Trade Canada
• Ottawa matching Canadians' Haiti donations
  • PM lifts cap for matching Haiti donations
    
• Canadas DART Team- Operation HESTIA (Canada's Mission in Haiti)
• CFB Gagetown personnel deploy to Haiti
• This Haitian town is singing Canada's praise