19 January 2010

Help for Haiti!

The earthquake in Haiti has been registered on January 12, 2010. At 16:53:09 local time to the epicentre with epicentre to 15 km from "Puerto Principe", the capital of Haiti. According to the Geological Service of The United States, the earthquake would have had a magnitude of 7,0 degrees and would have been generated 10 kilometres down the earth. Also has been registered a replis, being the strongest those of 5,9, 5,5 and 5,1 degrees. The NOAA rejected the danger of tsunami in the zone. This earthquake has been the strongest registered in the zone from the happened one in 1770.

The Prime minister of Haiti, Jean Max Bellerive, affirmed that the balance for the powerful earthquake in the country might overcome 140.000 victims, nevertheless the Red Cross said that the victims might come between 45.000 and 50.000, they have not been confirmed, it is difficult to be able to count the number of fatal victims due to the fact that rubbles invade the streets and avenues of "Puerto Principe". Between the destroyed buildings, like the ONU in Haiti, withdrew corpses from themselves of between the rubbles, but about 150 civil servants were still missing persons, said civil servants of the organisation.

Due to the great number of injured people for the earthquake, many persons had to be moved to the Dominican Republic, where dozens of seriously injured persons were coming in caravans to JimanĂ­'s hospital, in the west of Dominican Republic, a small frontier city with Haiti. Buses from "Puerto Principe", were coming to the General Melenciano Hospital, with mutilated children and dozens of men, women and elders with extremities or crania fractured, located to 280 km to the west of Santo Domingo.

Soon after the earthquake that flogged the country, the humanitarian help did not make to wait, so much as the United States, Latinamerican and European countries, the Red International Cross, the General Iberoamericana Secretariat, the Inter-American Bank of Development (BID), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (BM) between others, announced the sending of money, food, volunteers, firemen, experts and up to dogs specializing in searches to represent to the Caribbean country.

But it is not sufficient, we can do something, in our preparatory we can do donations, as not perishable food, clothes in good state and medicines.

WE CANNOT BE INDIFFERENT.

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