Haiti Quake Dead Could Exceed 100,000
Update: 16 UN personnel confirmed dead, 150 missing. – Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive has announced that ‘hundreds of thousands’ of people were killed in the earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday. Measuring 7.0 on the Richter Scale, the quake follows a 6.5 quake the previous day in Northern California, but there is no evidence of a link between them. There was little damage in California, butmillions of people have been left homeless, without access to food and water in Haiti. To contribute tothe Yele relief effort on the ground in Haiti,click here.
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