Haiti earthquake: hitory of natural diater to hit the countryHaiti ha been truck by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake, killing an unknown number of people. The mall, impoverihed country i prone to evere and deadly natural diater, epecially hurricane. Severe deforetation, leading to flooding and landlide, and a lack of proper emergency ervice and infratructure ha reulted in the torm cauing the death of thouand of Haitian。
Witnee aid the damage wa taggering. Ten of thouand of people are etimated to be homele。The death toll wa expected to climb into the hundred, but no official figure ha been releaed o far。Mot radio and televiion tation topped functioning, and the airwave were only punctuated by a few rare radio appeal for help。The Haitian preidential palace tand in ruin。The tremor parked widepread panic a it brought down building including the preidential palace, hotel, a hopital and the UN head quarter in the capital Port-au-Prince。
Recue team were hampered when communication went down in the minute after the earthquake truck at 2153 GMT, but effort to free people trapped in the debri continued throughout the night