WORST QUAKE IN HAITIS HISTORY OCCURS

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

REVELATION 6:12-17
12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains;
16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?

9 OR 10 MILLION OF HAITIS POPULATION HAS FELT THE WORST EVER QUAKE IN HISTORY IN THIS REGION.2 OTHER 5.9 AND 5.5 AFTERSCHOCKS OCURRED ALSO.UPDATES ON THE DEAD LATER.A FOOT TSUNAMI OCURRED BUT THE WARNING HAS BEEN STOPPED.

1.8 MILLION PEOPLE IN HAITI AND AREA WERE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THE STRONG VIOLENCE FROM THE INITIAL QUAKE AND ITS EFFECTS.DUST FROM THE CONCRETE IN THE AIR WAS CHOCKING PEOPLE.THE MOUNTAINS HAVE FALLEN AS WELL AS MUDSLIDES ONTO THE ROADS AND IS BLOCKING EVACTUATIONS AS WELL AS A LOT OF CUMMUNICATIONS ARE OUT.

7:35PM EST WITNESS:building shook for 35 seconds.The quake was centered 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince.

HAITI HAS 7,000 U.N TROOPS AND 2,000 POLICE TO CONTROL THE SITUATION IF THEY SURVIVED.A WITNESS WAS IN A GOVERNMENT BUILDING WHEN THE QUAKE OCURRED,THERE WERE DEAD BODIES AROUND HER AND BLOOD FROM SOMEONE ACTUALLY WENT ON HER BUT SHE ESCAPED WITH HER LIFE.WE CAN EXPECT THOUSANDS DEAD FROM THIS POOR COUNTRY.

UPDATE AT 6:30AM JAN 13,10 UP TO 3 MILLION PEOPLE IN HAITI HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY THE QUAKE.ITS STARTING TO GET DAYLIGHT OVER THERE SO THE DEATH COUNTS WILL SOON BE COMING IN.AT LEAST 20 PLUS AFTERSCHOCKS HAVE OCURRED,THE BIGGEST BEING A 5.9 AND 4 OTHERS WERE IN THE 5 RANGE AND 15 IN THE 4 RANGE.THE QUAKE WAS A STRIKE/SLIP -S-(SURFACE)WAVE,6 MILES DEEP,10 MILES FROM PORT-AU-PRINCE.

Haiti's capital shattered by powerful earthquake By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer – 6:30AM JAN 13,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Dazed and injured Haitians sat on darkened streets pleading for help Wednesday and untold numbers were trapped in tons of rubble brought down by the strongest earthquake to hit this poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years.
Destroyed communications made it impossible to tell the extent of destruction from Tuesday afternoon's 7.0-magnitude tremor — or to estimate the number of dead lying among thousands of collapsed buildings in Haiti's capital of about 2 million people.
The ornate National Palace crumbled into itself, the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission collapsed and swaths of rickety shacks lay in shambles. Clouds of dust thrown up by falling buildings choked Port-au-Prince for hours.The United States and other nations began organizing aid efforts, alerting search teams and gathering supplies that will be badly needed in Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest country. The international Red Cross and other aid groups announced plans for major relief operations.Associated Press journalists found the damage staggering even for a country long accustomed to tragedy and disaster.Aftershocks rattled the city as women covered in dust clawed out of debris, wailing. Stunned people wandered the streets holding hands. Thousands gathered in public squares long after nightfall, singing hymns.

It was clear tens of thousands lost their homes and many perished in collapsed buildings flimsy and dangerous even under normal conditions.The hospitals cannot handle all these victims, Dr. Louis-Gerard Gilles, a former senator, said as he helped survivors.Haiti needs to pray. We all need to pray together.An Associated Press videographer saw a wrecked hospital where people screamed for help in Petionville, a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians as well as the poor.At a destroyed four-story apartment building, a girl of about 16 stood atop a car, trying to peer inside while several men pulled at a foot sticking from rubble. The girl said her family was inside.U.N. peacekeepers, most of whom are from Brazil, looked for survivors in the ruins of what had been their five-story headquarters. U.N. peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy said late Tuesday that as we speak no one has been rescued.Le Roy said many U.N. personnel were missing, including mission chief Hedi Annabi, who was in the building when the quake struck. Some 9,000 peacekeepers have been in Haiti since a 2004 rebellion ousted the president.A state newspaper in China said eight Chinese peacekeepers serving in Haiti were known dead and 10 were missing — though officials later said the information was not confirmed. Jordan's official news agency said three of its peacekeepers were killed and 21 others injured.Much of the National Palace pancaked on itself, but Haiti's ambassador to Mexico, Robert Manuel, said President Rene Preval and his wife survived the earthquake. He had no details.The quake struck at 4:53 p.m., centered just 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of Port-au-Prince at a depth of only 5 miles (8 kilometers), the U.S. Geological Survey said. USGS geophysicist Kristin Marano called it the strongest earthquake since 1770 in what is now Haiti.

The temblor appeared to have occurred along a strike-slip fault, where one side of a vertical fault slips horizontally past the other, said Tom Jordan, a quake expert at the University of Southern California.Most of Haiti's 9 million people are desperately poor, and after years of political instability the country has no real construction standards. In November 2008, following the collapse of a school in Petionville, the mayor of Port-au-Prince estimated about 60 percent of buildings were shoddily built and unsafe in normal circumstances.Tuesday's quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, but no major damage was reported there. In eastern Cuba, houses shook but no significant damage was reported. With electricity knocked out in many places and phone service erratic, it was nearly impossible for Haitian or foreign officials to get full details of the devastation. In Washington, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said that U.S. Embassy personnel were literally in the dark after power failed. They reported structures down. They reported a lot of walls down. They did see a number of bodies in the street and on the sidewalk that had been hit by debris. So clearly, there's going to be serious loss of life in this, he said. The Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, said at least two Americans working at its Haitian aid mission were believed trapped in rubble. Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken,said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Port-au-Prince.The sky is just gray with dust.President Barack Obama offered prayers for the people of Haiti and said the U.S. stood ready to help. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. was offering full assistance — civilian and military — and a national organization of registered nurses called for nurse volunteers to provide care in Haiti. Elizabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the U.N.'s humanitarian office, said it was working with independent aid agency Telecoms Sans Frontieres to get phone lines working again — a key element in organizing relief efforts. Venezuela's government said it would send a military plane with canned foods, medicine and drinking water and provide 50 rescue workers. Mexico, which suffered an earthquake in 1985 that killed some 10,000 people, planned to send doctors, search and rescue dogs and infrastructure damage experts. Italy said it was sending a C-130 cargo plane Wednesday with a field hospital and emergency medical personnel as well as a team to assess aid needs. France said 65 clearing specialists, with six sniffer dogs, and two doctors and two nurses were leaving.

Edwidge Danticat, an award-winning Haitian-American author was unable to contact relatives in Haiti. She sat with family and friends at her home in Miami, looking for news on the Internet and watching TV news reports. You want to go there, but you just have to wait, she said.Life is already so fragile in Haiti, and to have this on such a massive scale, it's unimaginable how the country will be able to recover from this.Associated Press videographer Pierre Richard Luxama in Haiti and AP writers David Koop and Olga R. Rodriguez in Mexico City; David McFadden and Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Matthew Lee in Washington; Alicia Chang in Los Angeles; Andrea Rodriguez in Havana; Tamara Lush in Tampa, Fla.; and Jennifer Kay and Christine Armario in Miami contributed to this report.

7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Haiti – Tsunami Warning Issued
by Colby Hall | 5:45 pm, January 12th, 2010

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AP reports: The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a magnitude 7.0 earthquake has rocked Haiti. The quake at 1:53 p.m. PST was centered about 10 miles from the capital of Port-au-Prince. The Associated Press reported that a hospital has collapsed. A local tsunami watch was issued for that part of the Caribbean, but the warning from the Pacific Tsunami Watch Center said a widespread threat does not exist based on historical earthquake and tsunami data.More news as it develops.

Fears of major catastrophe as 7.0 quake rocks Haiti by Clarence Renois – JAN 12,10 6PM

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AFP) – A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and AFP witnesses said.A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT.An AFP correspondent said the ground shook for more than a minute. Just minutes later two aftershocks measuring both 5.9 and 5.5 on the moment magnitude scale hit, US officials said.I think it's really a catastrophe of major proportions, the country's ambassador to the United States, Raymond Alcide Joseph, told CNN television.The US Geological Survey said the powerful quake was initially measured at 7.3 on the scale and struck 16 kilometers (ten miles) from the capital Port-Au-Prince, and 27 kilometers (17 miles) from Petionville.An AFP correspondent in Petionville said one three-story building, housing two offices, was toppled, and a tractor was already at the scene trying to dig out victims as people fled onto the streets in panic.The up-scale area is home to many foreign diplomats and members of a major United Nations mission to the country.

The temblor struck at a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles), the USGS said.

A tsunami warning was in place for Haiti, Cuba, the Bahamas and the Dominican Republic, with the first waves predicted to hit Haiti shortly.The ambassador told CNN he was heartbroken as he had just spoken by telephone with a senior presidential aide who described scenes of chaos and devastation.He had to stop his car just about half an hour ago, and take to the streets, start walking, but he said houses were crumbling on the right side of the street and the left side of the street, Joseph said.He does not know whether he would reach his home, not knowing what he would find, because he had a bridge to cross to get there.A US Coast Guard spokeswoman Jennifer Johnson in Florida said they did not have much information yet, saying they had not yet been able to contact their office in Haiti.We haven't taken any measure in the area so far. We don't have any information rather that what we got from the news, she told AFP.We couldn't contact our officer there yet, so we are waiting to have more information in a couple of hours.Already the poorest nation in the Americas, Haiti has been hit by a series of disasters recently and was battered by hurricanes in 2008.The country was also gripped by a tense political standoff in April 2008 amid riots over skyrocketing food prices.Seventy percent of Haiti's population lives on less than two dollars per day and half of its 8.5 million people are unemployed.

According to official figures, food insecurity already affects more than a quarter of Haiti's population, some 1.9 million people, with women and children the worst affected. The Food and Agriculture Organization has designated Haiti as one of the world's most economically vulnerable countries. The WFP serves one meal a day to more than 500,000 Haitian schoolchildren, providing them with what is often their only meal of the day. The organization also feeds 100,000 women who are pregnant or breastfeeding and 50,000 children under the age of five. Since mid-2004, the Brazilian-led MINUSTAH has been keeping the peace in the impoverished Caribbean island nation.

Major quake hits Haiti; many casualties expected By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer – 6:28PM JAN 12,10

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The largest earthquake ever recorded in the area shook Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help. Other buildings also were damaged and scientists said they expected substantial damage and casualties.With communications disrupted there were no reports of deaths or injuries soon after the quake, as powerful aftershocks shook the country.The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles (15 kilometers) west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It had a depth of 5 miles (8 kilometers). It was the largest quake recorded in the area, said USGS analyst Dale Grant, and the last major one since a magnitude-6.7 temblor in 1984.An Associated Press videographer saw the wrecked hospital in Petionville, a hillside Port-au-Prince district that is home to many diplomats and wealthy Haitians. Elsewhere, a U.S. government official reported seeing houses that had tumbled into a ravine.Haiti's ambassador to the U.S., Raymond Joseph, said from his Washington office that he spoke to President Rene Preval's chief of staff, Fritz Longchamp, just after the quake hit. He said Longchamp told him that buildings were crumbling right and left near the national palace. He said he has not gotten through by phone to Haiti since.Don Blakeman, an analyst at the USGS in Golden, Colorado, said such a strong quake carried the potential for widespread damage.

I think we are going to see substantial damage and casualties, he said.The quake was felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. Some panicked residents in the capital of Santo Domingo fled from their shaking homes.In eastern Cuba, houses shook but no major damage was immediately reported.We felt it very strongly and I would say for a long time. We had time to evacuate,said Monsignor Dionisio Garcia, archbishop of Santiago.In Haiti, the extent of the damage was unclear.Everybody is just totally, totally freaked out and shaken, said Henry Bahn, a U.S. Department of Agriculture official visiting Haiti. The sky is just gray with dust.

Bahn said he was walking to his hotel room when the ground began to shake.I just held on and bounced across the wall, he said. I just hear a tremendous amount of noise and shouting and screaming in the distance.Bahn said there were rocks strewn about and he saw a ravine where several homes had stood: It's just full of collapsed walls and rubble and barbed wire.The U.S. National Weather Service issued a tsunami watch for Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the Bahamas, but said historically the region has seen few destructive tsunamis.In Washington, State Department spokesman Gordon Duguid said U.S. officials were holding emergency meetings.We need to gather what information we can quickly. We will of course assist in any way we can, he said. Felix Augustin, Haiti's consul general in New York, said he was concerned about everyone in Haiti, including his relatives. Communication is absolutely impossible, he said. I've been trying to call my ministry and I cannot get through. ... It's mind-boggling.Associated Press writers David Koop in Mexico City, Matthew Lee in Washington and Andrea Rodriguez in Havana contributed to this report.