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This Twitter image shows Haitians standing amid the rubble in Port-au-Prince. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images With many of the official lines of communication down, user-generated content played an important role yesterday in spreading news about the Haiti earthquake.
"Everything started shaking, people were screaming, houses started collapsing, it 's total chaos ," said Joseph Guyler Delva, a Reuters reporter. This footage which appears to show a dust cloud from a destroyed urban area appeared on YouTube. Many of the initial accounts of the devastation were posted to Twitter, according to the New York Times Lede blog. The LA Times has a compiled a list of Twitter user who say they are in Port-au-Prince. The New York Times has another useful Twitter list . Twitter users continue to report aftershocks.
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Former US President Bill Clinton has made a renewed appeal for aid at a special session on Haiti at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr Clinton started by praising the people of Haiti who he said had behaved "magnificently" in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake. He then called for more aid and pick-up trucks to help with distribution saying: "If anyone knows where I can get some trucks, I need 100 yesterday".
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An outpouring of well wishes and support for the Haitian people has swept the web in the wake of a devastating 7.0 earthquake in Haiti . And just like during the Eureka earthquake , tweets have quickly spread moving and gut-wrenching TwitPics of the disaster. Photos taken by journalist @CarelPedre on his mobile phone are providing a glimpse into the devastation that has slammed the Caribbean nation. Another Twitter user, @MarvinAdy , shared those pictures through TwitPic, resulting in tens of thousands of views and countless retweets. There are also thousands of Facebook and Twitter updates on the disaster appearing every minute.
Survey the Damage in Haiti With Google Earth
You can now get a satellite’s-eye view of the devastation in Haiti with Google Earth . Google worked with satellite imaging company GeoEye to put together a map layer file that provides up-close views of the wreckage of government buildings and more in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince. Download the file to check it out. It’s in KML format, and it should load in Google Earth automatically if you have that desktop app installed.USA TODAY interactive map shows key information related to the magnitude-7.0 earthquake in Haiti . Guidelines: You share in the USA TODAY community, so please keep your comments smart and civil. Don't attack other readers personally, and keep your language decent. Use the "Report Abuse" button to make a difference. Read more .
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A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0. Such a powerful earthquake can make current maps suddenly out of date, causing additional challenges to rescue workers on the ground.
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As rescue workers scramble to provide assistance to hundreds of thousands of people following Haiti’s earthquake, Earth observation satellite data continues to provide updated views of the situation on the ground. Following the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January, international agencies requested satellite data of the area from the International Charter on 'Space and Major Disasters'. The Charter, an international initiative aimed at providing satellite data free of charge to those affected by disasters anywhere in the world, immediately began re-tasking their satellites to get the data urgently needed. Data are being collected by various satellites including Japan’s ALOS, CNES’s Spot-5, the U.S.’s WorldView and QuickBird, Canada’s RADARSAT-2, China’s HJ-1-A/B and ESA’s ERS-2 and Envisat. These data are being processed into maps that show the degree of destruction.The page you are looking for, " http://www.abc.net.au/news/specials/haiti-earthquake/ " cannot be found. It might have been removed, had its name changed, or be temporarily unavailable.
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Photo: REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz Numerous members of the TED community have sought to find a way to help victims of the Haiti quake. We believe one of the organizations best placed to make an immediate difference is Partners in Health . They have operated medical facilities in Haiti for more than two decades and have numerous people on the ground.
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The TED Blog today spoke with Patrick Meier, who is part of the team at Ushahidi working to bring information about the Haiti earthquake crisis to Haitians (those inside and outside the country), the press, humanitarian relief workers, governments, and concerned people worldwide. (TED Senior Fellow Erik Hersman , TED speaker Ory Okolloh and TED Senior Fellow Juliana Rotich co-founded the organization.) I found out about the earthquake around 7pm.A new wave of panic hit the streets of Haiti this morning as a strong aftershock unleashed even more destruction on the ravaged country. This secondary quake was estimated at 6.1 magnitude , but reports on further damage aren’t yet available. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, today’s earthquake was centered 26 miles west-northwest of Jacmel. As military personnel are trying to keep order in the streets of Port-au-Prince, the secondary quake raises further concerns of riots and violence breaking out in the Haitian capital. With Twitter currently being flaky, many users have turned to Facebook to point out the news and express their support .
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