RSOE EDIS - Situation Update No. 77 : Haiti - Earthquake

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Situation Update No. 77 Posted:2010-01-12, 22:28:54 [UTC] Ref.no.: EQ-20100112-24531-HTI Situation Update No. 77 On 2010-02-10 at 14:17:27 [UTC] Event: Earthquake Location: Haiti Capital City Port-au-Prince area Number of Deads: 230000 person(s) Number of Injured: 300000 person(s) Number of Evacuated: 500000 person(s) Situation: Authorities in Haiti have revised the number of people they believe to be dead following the magnitude 7.0 earthquake to 230,000. The quake hit the country on Jan. 12. According to CBS News/Associated Press, Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said it was previously believed 212,000 people had perished as a result of the earthquake. In the days following the disaster, the death toll was expected to be 150,000 but is now thought 230,000 people have lost their lives. Lassegue warned the figure excluded those people buried in private cemeteries or by members of their family. No reason was given for distinguishing between those two types of burial. Furthermore, 300,000 people were reportedly injured by the quake, as many as 4,000 of them requiring amputation of limbs. CBS News puts the number of homeless at 500,000. That figure is different than the one indicated by Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive. The Telegraph, quotes an interview the Prime Minister gave to CNN where he said one million people were actually made homeless by the earthquake. Including those without a home prior to the disaster, Bellerive said "you should have around two million people on the streets right now". The new figure given for the number of deaths in Haiti is drawing comparisons with the numbers killed by the Asian Tsunami of 2004. The different death tolls illustrate the difficulties Haitian authorities are having pinpointing the number of people who have perished in their country. Many sources do indeed seem to be reporting the tsunami also claimed 230,000 lives, yet the New Statesman reports that 250,000 were killed by what was initially an undersea earthquake on Dec. 26, 2004. Please DO NOT reply to this message: replies may be treated as errors and result in your subscription being deleted. If you have trouble or other queries, send email to havaria@rsoe.hu RSOE EDIS is operated by the National Association of Radio-Distress Signalling and Infocommunications (RSOE), Budapest, Hungary. Because of the complexity of this system and its dependence on other systems, we cannot be responsible for delays or failures in forwarding or transmission. You're receiving this AlertMail because you subscribed for the service. To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. Contact: havaria@rsoe.hu