lol I did. but an hour later
at Metalupyourass, nice username by the way lol, its not like I am assuming that everyone felt the earthquake. asking this question doesnt mean I think everyone lives in California. I do not know how that even entered your mind.
and also thats why I am asking who felt the earthquake. if you didnt feel the earthquake then a simple "No" is good enough

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This is kinda like a "what if" question. This is a horrible disaster, and it is hurricane season. Would oil "get" into the rain, since water evaporates, to form rain? If this did happen it would be a disaster, or is it possible it would just be like a normal hurricane, with oil having no effect at all?

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soooooooooooo…. they said we have nothing to worry about… with all the hype of the obvious "2012" thing, but more specifically, the fact that the earth is going through a lot more the past few years is pretty bad.

tell me this doesn’t add up to something?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100609/sc_space/moreactivesunmeansnastysolarstormsahead

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php

-note- the stats aren’t as high as past years, but this year isn’t even half way over and already it’s above half the other years.

http://hogueprophecy.com/2010/natural-disasters-the-quickening-in-2010/

another thing – the chile earthquake shifted the earth’s axis, and our days are shorter by a fraction of a second, i know not to worry about a fraction of a second, but eventually it adds up… 1/50th of a second is a whole second in just 50 days, a minute in a couple years, and will eventually add up to an hour to a whole day to a couple days, to a week, to a month, to a couple months to half a year, to a whole year (that’s giving the half a second or whatever it is, hundreds of years to take away a whole years worth of time)… i plan on living a long healthy life, so why would i want a day or two taken out of my routine?

no, i’m not being paranoid… frankly, i don’t give a crap. i just wanted to post a question to make people think. SO please don’t put up "omg you’re so dumb" "wow you need to kill yourself" "wtf you believe everything you read" answers.

ten points will go to the person who puts the most thought into their answer… thus, you won’t get 10 points by posting "posting for points" because that’s not going to get you anywhere.
i applaud you dylan, although, you’re a dick… so i have to give you a thumbs down.
gexi… i’ll be with you in hell because i don’t believe in it either LOL and i don’t think the world is gonna end ^^ i’m not into following the rest of the obvious cattle into the cage so we can be slaughtered. but, i don’t believe nothing is going to happen.. i’d rather be undecided because that way whatever happens happens and i can accept it either way.

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Think about the types of instruments that a marine scientist or geologist might use to gather evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics. What specific instruments were needed to gather each of the following types of data? (use the "Developing the Theory" section) http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/developing.html
(a) demonstration of the ruggedness and youth of the ocean floor
(b) confirmation of repeated reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field in the geologic past
(c) emergence of the seafloor-spreading hypothesis and associated recycling of oceanic crust
(d) precise documentation that the world’s earthquake and volcanic activity is concentrated along oceanic trenches and submarine mountain ranges

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I’ve got an eight-year-old 32" Toshiba–a tube TV, not a flat-screen. Recently the picture has become intermittently jittery and twitchy. Some of the jitters are tiny, but then at other times it’s more like a small earthquake. It can last for 10-20 minutes, but then go away for two or three hours before returning. It happens on every input, so it’s not a loose cable. Hitting the side of the TV isn’t very effective in stopping it, though it does seem to be a reliable way to induce the jittering when it’s not happening already (useful I suppose if/when I need to show the problem to a repair guy).

Don’t know whether I should get it looked at and fixed (or how much that’s likely to cost) or whether I should just take this opportunity to hop on the HD bandwagon. It’s our primary TV, so it’s not something we want to just live with. But at the same time, considering it works just fine for hours between fits of jittering, it seems nowhere near "broken" enough to just scrap it.

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I always wondered out of curiosity. Picture a young boy put into a "Robinson Crusoe" situation. Not baptised, just somehow ended up on his own (earthquake killed his parents), raised himself, fed himself, never sinned, and never been exposed to any religion, people or sin. When he dies which religion would take him? Would Catholic God say ok, you can go to heaven , or will He say you have never read my bible or accepted Catholism you are going to hell? Would Muslim God let him go to heaven? Would any religion accept him? Would Buddhism or Hinduism be kinder to him? What about an older Christian religion like Eastern Orthodoxy?

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Hello.
I’m doing a virtual project for my physics class involving shipping disaster relief items (mine being a water tank to Tanzania). I’m not too familiar with all of the different kinds of aircrafts and such, but I’m pretty much trying to find a cargo aircraft that has a cargo door (I’m more than positive that’s incorrect terminology) bigger than 12 x 20" and can hold, at the MOST, 48,000 lbs. Kind of difficult for me. So, if anyone has any websites and/or information on what kind of aircraft I should be looking for, or any specific aircraft reccomendations, let me know.
Thanks :]
NOTE// Sorry I didn’t mention this, but I’m not allowed to use helicopters. Which, I think, doesn’t make too much sense.. but whatever.
Oh, and after browsing a few of the suggested aircraft I figured out that it’s going to be nearly impossible to find a plane that has a big enough cargo door, yet has that small of a maximum weight. I believe as long as I have a valid argument as to why the max. weight for my plane is so high, my teacher won’t have too much of a problem with it. I’ll just have to increase the number of water tanks I’m carrying or something of that nature. Thanks :].

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please give me answer for this question i have to make a project on and i have still got no answer please give me information about

"what can a student do inmanaging disasters"

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I live only 15 minutes away from the Mexicali border where the 7.2 and other earthquakes have been propagated from and I tell you, i’ve been through the other quakes from 79 when I was a tot, on up and I have never felt one as violent as this one. I think the reason for such a violent earthquake was that it was shallow. I remember right after I was thinking "Christ, did that come from San Andreas??" I wanted to get on the roof to see where the or if there is a dust cloud to see. I lost a display hutch, a fire place mantel, and bottles and glasses. I also have new cracks around my house walls. I’ve seen pictures of Mexicali, man, they got whacked good, lots of liquefaction and collapsed buildings. Anyways, does anyone know of a site that has animations of the sort showing what actually moves underneath, besides the fault. I mean, what do the focus points look like where the epicenters are? I have been following the quakes since 2007, keeping my eye on that Serro Prieto mountain and the Laguna Sulada fault, I am concerned that it could trigger another large one on our side or even the Serro Prieto fault since the two rub elbows with each other. The Laguna Sulada butts right up against the Yuha Wells fault but I’m not sure if it is underneath or on top, lots of aftershocks have been coming from that area and are very close to the surface. Earthquakes fascinate me as well as they terrify me yup
Thanks but i know all about the fault and tectonic plates movement, the obvious, my 5 year old can explain that one, but I want to know more in detail

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I live in the northeast. A couple of weeks ago we had one of those "once in a hundred years" rain storms that seem to happen every ten years around here.

I live a couple miles from the ocean in an area that eons ago was actually in the ocean. About five feet down the soil ends and marine clay begins. Rainwater does not permeate marine clay. The result of the recent colossal storm was that almost everybody in my area experienced flooded basements, me included.

Luckily, I had all my mechanicals on cement pads just high enough to avoid being ruined, but I lost a lot of tools (I’m a contractor) that I’ve had for years, and the kids playroom. There is no way I can produce receipts for the tools. To replace them all at once, I estimate it would cost about 12K, I could rebuild a very nice playroom for less than k

I’ve never taken a dime from the government but FEMA sent me a letter, through my insurance carrier, telling me that I qualify for relief.

Anybody have any experience with this? Worth it or were you bogged down in red tape?

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Go to wikipedia and look up the LHC atom splitter the one that physicists are testing out and playing God with note some of the recent uses and the couple of day later earthquakes…

i think its the "butterfly effect"

who else thinks scientists shouldnt be putting other peoples lives in their hands with something on such a catastrophical level??

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Many of our country’s "enemies" have offered help to us in wake of tragic events; most of their offers refused.

In Hurricane Katrina, Cuba was one of the first nations to respond and offered to send doctors, tons of medicinal supplies, and money. The US Government declined and told Cuba "no". Now say what you want about political differences but if help is offered immiediately it really doesn’t matter who it is coming from and you are declining the supplies offered to the people who need it.

Also in Hurricane Katrina assistance from France was at first rejected but we later on accepted their aid.

On 9/11 Mayor Guiliani would not accept a 1 million dollar donation from Saudi Arabia.

How do you feel about our government declining the aid of our "enemies". I use "enemies" in quotes because I don’t regard Cuba and France as threats to us. It is a way to mend relations with our nations; to work together in wake of tragedies. A step towards making progress during these wars.

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Think about the types of instruments that a marine scientist or geologist might use to gather evidence to support the theory of plate tectonics. What specific instruments were needed to gather each of the following types of data? (use the "Developing the Theory" section) http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/develop…
(a) demonstration of the ruggedness and youth of the ocean floor
(b) confirmation of repeated reversals of the Earth’s magnetic field in the geologic past
(c) emergence of the seafloor-spreading hypothesis and associated recycling of oceanic crust
(d) precise documentation that the world’s earthquake and volcanic activity is concentrated along oceanic trenches and submarine mountain ranges

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Why should they get money for flood and disaster relief? Where are the: "Don’t let the feds get involved in the states people, ranting and raving, here on this site, then protesting and waving signs in Washington now."?
Hmmm, just wondering?

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Here is a quote from an article regarding the quake in Italy (L’Aquilla).

"The U.S. Geological Survey said the big quake was magnitude 6.3, but Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics put it at 5.8 and more than a dozen aftershocks followed."

I know that the Richter scale is logarithmic, so this difference is actually substantial. Do estimates normally vary this much?
Are you saying that it is different because one measurement was made on the N. American plate and the other made on the European plate?

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Back In 1970, former National Security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski wrote in Between Two Ages, that:

‘By the year 2018, technology will make available to the leaders of the major nations, a variety of techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised. One nation may attack a competitor covertly by bacteriological means, thoroughly weakening the population (though with a minimum of fatalities) before taking over with its own armed forces. Alternatively, techniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm…"
-and-
“The technetronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.”

In addition to "techniques of weather modification", and a capacity to "attack a competitor covertly by bacteriological means", we also have electromagnetic weapons with which to transmit effects such as earthquake induction(HAARP Tech.) across intercontinental distances with force levels equivalent to major nuclear explosions.

Military documents reveal that current tactics and strategies may not simply aim to kill people. Chronically sick people are more useful than dead people. Chronically sick people need expensive drugs and can make good slaves of the state. Weather control is now part of the modern arsenal, as are earthquakes and other "natural" disasters. With weapons like these, regular people won’t even know who is attacking who.
So did you know that chemtrails(weather modification),fluoridated water,pharmacuetical drugs,etc. just a way to reduce population? The New World order and socialism is directed towards population reduction.
Did you know that from 1977 to 1985, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was President and CEO of Searle Pharmaceuticals.Gee, i wonder what is going on guys.

There is a much bigger picture here.
What the Globalists want is:

A World Currency, A World Government, and a World Army.

Now….ask yourself, “Why do they want this?”

The answer of course is: for power and control.

Now, let’s go one step further and ask, “power and control FOR WHAT?” After all, people like the Rockefellers, the Queen of England, and the Rothschilds can already do basically anything they want. They live in palaces and have their own security. They can buy any politician they choose or exert their influence to crush any that oppose them.

Why do they have this fixation on running the world?

The Elite want a global government as a means of power & control to enforce dramatic population reductions. The programs and tools they are using now in various places (i.e. one-child policies, forced vaccinations, etc.) will ultimately devolve into systematic genocide.

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we have a test coming up and i dont know what this means. this was the question "What are the basic steps of the elastic rebound model? What does ERT mean with respect to our
understanding of earthquakes?" i dont know the first part either.

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Ok, so if you havent already heard we had a 5.4 earthquake now most parents and people (cuz of being stupid or know it alls) think that you dont need to prepare at all or know anythin about what to do durin an earthquake. i was home with my sis and my dog and this was the first bigger earthquake that has struck our house since i was little and i got scared. i dont want stupid answers but im wondering what is the safety thing to do when it does happen because there has become a debate about whether doorways r safer or ducking under a sturdy table is safer or sitting in your bed with a blanket covering you is safer or running outside to a clear opening is safer or even if crouching near an "interior" wall and covering is safer. What do you guys think especially if you have lived through some bad/big earthquakes? is a preparedness kit neccesary since some people say it isnt? and what is an example of an interior wall? and what if you live in a 2story house with the bedrooms on the 2nd fl?

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Is the answer to how much US taxpayers should spend on Haiti, "Whatever they need / Whatever it takes?"

Should there be some guidance or balance between US government donations versus private donations to aid the earthquake victims?

With a corrupt government now in shambles, AIDS infecting 5% of the population, a birth rate twice the rate of that in U.S., widespread abject poverty and an infrastructure that has crumbled under this devastating earthquake, is Haiti heading to become the 51st state of the United States under Obama’s leadership?

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I know that there a lot of earthquakes that cannot be felt because they are too small, but has there been a sudden increase in earthquakes in California? I was in Glendale on Friday, and I felt the earthquake, some slight shaking, nothing too big, but every time I turn on the news it’s "earthquake after earthquake after earthquake". Within the past two weeks when I watch the news, there has always been some sort of earthquake being reported in California or within close proximity of California. What does this mean? Is this normal?

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Andy Barr Andy Barr – Fri Jan 15, 8:40 am ET
Rush Limbaugh is not backing down from his claim that President Barack Obama is trying to score political points off the earthquake in Haiti.

Challenged by a caller during his show Thursday, Limbaugh said: “If I said it, I meant to say it, and I do believe that everything is political to this president.”

“Everything this president sees is a political opportunity, including Haiti, and he will use it to burnish his credentials with minorities in this country and around the world, and to accuse Republicans of having no compassion,” Limbaugh said in comments flagged by the liberal blog Think Progress. http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20100115/pl_politico/31539
The host claimed the White House’s response would bolster Obama’s standing in the “light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.”

He also appeared to discourage help for the island nation, saying, “We’ve already donated to Haiti. It’s called the U.S. income tax.”

Critics have characterized Limbaugh’s comments as insensitive and tone-deaf at a time when heartbreaking images of the devastation dominate news coverage.

Confronted with some of that criticism, Limbaugh slammed a caller as “close-minded.”

“What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a blockhead,” Limbaugh shot back. “What I’m illustrating here is that you’re a close-minded bigot who is ill-informed.”

“If you had listened to this program for a modicum of time, you would know it,” he said. “But instead, you’re a blockhead. Your mind is totally closed. You have tampons in your ears. Nothing is getting through other than the biased crap that you read.”
Dude needs a valium bad! Chill out Limbaugh, you don’t have to be jerk your entire life do you? ( o _ 0 )
Rush L: "Everything this president sees is a political opportunity."

And everything that Rush L does is out of the "benevolence" of his heart?
( ^ _ ^ ) I like Rush…when he’s "quiet."

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Alright, so I was moving and packing up my things because I’m moving next week…
and I found an ancient saber in the back of my closet. I don’t remember how I got it. But it’s old and crazy elaborate. I have some pictures here that I’ll put in the details.
I’m wondering if anyone knows a lot about this sort of thing or can tell me what they think of where it’s from.
Here’s what I do know:

-The blade says "Germany", nearest to the handle.
-The handle says J.M. LITCHFIELD & Co. on it, which is one company out of many that was destroyed in the horrible 1906 San Francisco Earthquake when the entire city crumbled, caught fire, and was declared Martial Law
-The Blade says 32 on it, in multiple places.
-J. M. Litchfield & Co. Existed from 1876 – 1906.

anyway so that’s all I know, I’m really trying to learn more about it, and exploring the idea of sending it to a museum, or selling it to a collector where it would be better appreciated. I can guess that it’s a military saber.

Think someone could give me an idea of how much it’s worth, and what to do with it?
or yahoo can be bugged and submit twice without letting any details. ;\
ugh, okay send me a message if you want a full description.
Yes, I already said museum or sell, I’m wondering how to do that. Please remember the yahoo policy when responding to this question.

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News reports clearly show U.S. military planes being unloaded by our military.
January 13, 2010
"With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation."

One of two planes carrying a 30-person assessment team arrived at Port-au-Prince airport about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. The team will assess what Haiti needs to cope with the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.us.coast.guard/?hpt=Sbin

http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=57493

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Could that be possible?

I came accross various articles on this subject online, here’s one:

The Russian Navy reports that the U.S. created the earthquake in Haiti

The Northern Fleet has been monitoring the movements and activities of U.S. Marines in the Caribbean since 2008 when the Americans announced their intention to reestablish the Fourth Fleet, which was disbanded in 1950, and that Russia responded a year later, with the Fleet led by the nuclear-powered cruiser Peter the Great "by starting its first exercises in this region since the end of the Cold War.”
Since the end of the decade of the 70′s in the last century, the U.S. "advanced a lot" in the state of its earthquake weapons and, according to these reports, they now use equipment with Pulse, Plasma and Tesla Electromagnetic and Sonic technology together with "shock wave bombs."

The report also compares the experiences of these two earthquake weapons of the U.S. Navy last week, when the test in the Pacific caused an earthquake of magnitude 6.5 to strike in the area around the town of Eureka, Calif., causing no casualties. But the test in the Caribbean caused the death of at least 140 thousand innocent people.

According to the report, it is "more than likely" that the U.S. Navy had "full knowledge" of the catastrophic damage that this test earthquake could potentially have on Haiti and had pre-positioned its Deputy Commander of the Southern Command, General PK Keen, on the island to oversee aid work if needed.

As regards the final result of the tests of these weapons, the report warns that there is a U.S. plan to destroy Iran through a series of earthquakes designed to overthrow its current Islamic regime. Additionally, according to the report, the system being tested by the USA (HAARP Project) would also create anomalies in the climate causing floods, droughts and hurricanes.

According to another report, coincidentally, facts exist establishing that the earthquake in Sichuan, China on 12 May 2008, a magnitude 7.8 on the Richter scale, was also caused by HAARP radio frequencies. It can be observed that there is a correlation between seismic activity and the ionosphere, through the control of Radio Frequencies Induced by force fields, which is a HAARP feature, and it can be concluded that:

1 .- Earthquakes identical in depth and linearly on the same fault are caused by induced frequency linear projection.

2 .- A coordinated satellite configuration can generate concentrated frequency projections targeting specific points (force fields).

3. A diagram shows that earthquakes considered to be artificial propagate linearly at the same depth.

-Venezuela, on January 8, 2010. Depth: 10 km.

- Honduras, on 11 January 2010. Depth: 10 km.

- Haiti, on 12 January 2010. Depth: 10 km.

The rest of the aftershocks occurred at depths close to 10 km.

Soon after the earthquake, the Pentagon said the hospital ship USS Comfort, which was docked in Baltimore, summoned its crew and sailed to Haiti, despite the fact that several days would elapse before arrival in Haiti. Nevertheless, Navy Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. armed forces were preparing an emergency response to the disaster.

General Douglas Fraser, Commander-in-Chief of USSSOUTHCOM, said that Coast Guard and U.S. Navy vessels in the region were sent to offer help even if they had limited resources and helicopters.

The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson was sent from the naval base at Norfolk, Virginia, with a complete consignment of aircraft and helicopters. It arrived in Haiti early on the afternoon of January 14. Other additional groups of helicopters will attach with the Carl Vinson, said Fraser.

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), operated in Haiti before the earthquake. President Obama was informed of the earthquake at 17.52 on January 12 and asked his staff to ensure that embassy officials were safe and began preparations to provide needed humanitarian assistance.

According to the Russian report, the State Department, USAID and the U.S. Southern Command began its work of "humanitarian invasion" by sending at least 10,000 soldiers and contractors, to control Haitian territory, rather than the UN, after the devastating "experimental earthquake."

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What should I know about Earthquakes in Virginia? I never thought of Richmond VA to be active but there has been several earthquakes in the last 3-5 years. Nothing major of course, but still more than expected. What should I know about Earthquakes in this region? Are we one of those locations that "is just a matter of time until we get ‘the big one" or what? Should we fear Tsunamis (although the Chesapeake Bay is apart of a estuary)

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As soon as i heard about all the cash obama is sending to haiti i nearly spit my drink.. its bull.. their already pretty much dead on their own crime / drug / gheto way of life and here he is, sending much needed troops and cash to help them..

now theirs fund raisers and nothing but nasty pictures of people in the earthquake… its retarded how we can fund raise so much money in this supposed "2nd depression" to help these unproductive ignored people in the world.. i feel bad for the troops having to get their hands dirty again for something they shouldnt be doing.

nah lets help them cause they have always helped america right? who cares of many of us are jobless and poor (and legal.. damn mexicans)… who cares if i cant get health insurance or a loan to get into school.. lets go help them poor blacks keep living so they can continue being nothing to the world
and if the same shit happened to america, i wouldnt expect a damn thing from the world.. except for canada.. cause without us, canada would become the new mexico like america

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(By JONATHAN M. KATZ, Associated Press Writer Jonathan M. Katz, Associated Press Writer)

Death was everywhere in Port-au-Prince. Bodies of tiny children were piled next to schools. Corpses of women lay on the street with stunned expressions frozen on their faces as flies began to gather. Bodies of men were covered with plastic tarps or cotton sheets.

President Rene Preval said he believes thousands were killed in Tuesday afternoon’s magnitude-7.0 quake, and the scope of the destruction prompted other officials to give even higher estimates. Leading Sen. Youri Latortue told The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead, although he acknowledged that nobody really knows.

The international Red Cross said a third of Haiti’s 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge.

Aftershocks continued to rattle the capital of 2 million people as women covered in dust clawed out of debris, wailing. Stunned people wandered the streets holding hands. Thousands gathered in public squares to sing hymns.

U.N. humanitarian chief John Holmes said it was possible that the death toll "will be in the thousands."

"Initial reports suggest a high number of casualties and, of course, widespread damage but I don’t have any figure that I can give you with any reliability of what the number of casualties will be," Holmes said.

People pulled bodies from collapsed homes, covering them with sheets by the side of the road. Passers-by lifted the sheets to see if loved ones were underneath. Outside a crumbled building, the bodies of five children and three adults lay in a pile.

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Global News Blog
Wyclef Jean Haiti earthquake: Singer leads charge to help through Yele Haiti charity – and Twitter
Hip Hop artist Wyclef Jean is urging people to donate to his Haitian charity, Yéle Haiti, by texting "YELE" to 501501. (The donation will be automatically charged to your cellphone bill.) His is one of many Haiti earthquake relief efforts underway.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Global-News/2010/0113/Wyclef-Jean-Haiti-earthquake-Singer-leads-charge-to-help-through-Yele-Haiti-charity-and-Twitter

Edit:

I spend .00 at "China Fun" on vegetable fried rice easily! So donating .00 to help those in need is cake for me!
Unless you have a "legit" website, I’m not texting nor do I vouch for "Haiti" 90999. You need to post a "legit" website! Sorry but I just don’t trust random numbers. Come legit or don’t come at all!
http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/81371092.html Ok, I see where you’re getting your information from. I’m sorry for coming off rude like. I owe you an apology. ( ^ _ ^ ) There happen to be people who use catastrophic events such as this for their own personal gain. I also did "Haiti" 90999 just a few seconds ago and received a confirmation text. Thanks for answer S.J.
I checked it out EeeBee and it’s legit. I really hope that all the money goes to helping the people of Haiti. I really do.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/01/13/yele.wyclef.haiti.relief/index.html?section=cnn_latest

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Sometimes I think/remember and pray for individual people whose stories are only briefly mentioned in the midst of huge natural and not-so-natural disasters.

For example: the big Northridge Earthquake from 15 years ago — one of the first reports of a death was a woman who had tripped over something rushing to get her baby out of a crib and broke her neck. I heard nothing else about it because the apartment building collapse over-took the news. I still think of her when earthquakes happen and wonder what has become of that little one.

The picture of the guy who jumped out of one of the towers on 9-11 and he just went for it — head first (albeit a men’s mag, Details perhaps, wrote an article about "who was he?") I think of him and his family.

The reports about one lady breastfeeding many babies in the Superdome after Katrina because there was no formula or clean water. Or the reports that people were being hurt and killed.

I am just wondering, do you all feel for the "small people in big disasters" and do those stories stay with you? If you’re religious, do you find yourself randomly adding these folks to your prayers?

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