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Haiti needs your help .. Really here all that has happened puerto principe. A powerful earthquake rocked Tuesday southwestern Haiti and Dominican Republic, causing widespread devastation in Port-au-Prince and nearby provinces. Early reports indicate that a hospital collapsed and people crying for help, according to authorities and witnesses said.
If you send video of the earthquake here Authorities launched the alert for a possible tsunami in the region as a result of the earthquake, but the warning was discontinued 45 minutes later.
The powerful earthquake was a "major disaster", said Ambassador of Haiti, Raymond Joseph, the U.S., while the UN launched an appeal for immediate aid to the impoverished Caribbean country U.S. diplomats on the spot "saw many bodies in the streets and sidewalks, which were torn to pieces," said Philip Crowley, State Department spokesman: "Obviously there are many deaths." Preliminary data The earthquake had a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 degrees. It happened in the afternoon at 18:53 local time and was centered about 22 kilometers (14 miles) west of Port au Prince, said the U.S. Geological Service (USGS).
Donate to UNICEF is deploying clean water and sanitation supplies, therapeutic foods, medical supplies and temporary shelter to Jacmel and Port-au-Prince. UNICEF will also be focusing on children who have become separated from their families to protect them from harm or exploitation.
Donate to CARE plans to start food distributions using stocks of high-protein biscuits from CARE warehouses in Haiti. CARE has 133 staff who are on the ground coordinating with U.N. agencies and other aid organizations to gather more detailed information about the damage and will rapidly scale up response based on those assessments.
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