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Haiti quake death toll reaches 212,000: PM Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 4, 2010 
The death toll from Haiti's catastrophic earthquake last month has reached 212,000, while the number of homeless may be far higher than the one million estimated by authorities, the prime minister said Thursday.
"We have over 200,000 (dead). The last number I received from my services was 212,000 people that were collected on the streets and different places," Prime Minister Jean-Max Belleri ... read moreNorthern California jolted by strong quake 
Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 4, 2010Northern California was shaken Thursday by a strong earthquake, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage from the towns nearest its epicenter. The quake was measured at 6.0 on the Moment Magnitude scale and was only seven miles (11 kilometers) deep, according to experts from the US Geological Survey. It was centered off the western Pacific coast some 35 miles fro ... more
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Penguin future looks perkier with marine zone: study
EU ministers call for common electric car strategy US warns China against 'stillborn' climate deal Eastern US braces for more snow misery Snowbound US government freezes up on hot issues Homes evacuated as Los Angeles braces for storm Eastern US braces for fresh snow blitz Swift help urged for Haiti's crucial weather forecasters Amnesty demands halt to Vedanta's India mine plans Two dead as storms, floods hit Turkey's south: report 
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Polynesia tropical depression upgraded to cyclone
Papeete (AFP) Feb 4, 2010The Pacific island of Tahiti was placed on Red Alert and vulnerable residents were evacuated Thursday as a powerful cyclone expected to bring seven-metre waves menaced the island, an official said. Cyclone Oli, upgraded overnight from a tropical storm, is already drawing menacingly close to Bora Bora and Maupiti in the French Polynesian Leeward Islands, the High Commissioner said Thursday. ... more On Haiti hillside mourners pray over mass graves 
Titanyen (AFP) Feb 1, 2010On a dry hillside north of Port-au-Prince, hundreds of people gathered Monday to mourn earthquake victims dumped in mass graves here, where opponents of Haiti's brutal dictatorships were once buried. On a hilltop overlooking the Caribbean Sea, a digger cleared a plot of land, and the smell of death mingled with the weeping of some 350 mourners saying their final goodbyes to friends and famil ... more Volcanic Hazard Map Produced For Island Of Gran Canaria 
Las Palmas, Spain (SPX) Feb 03, 2010Spanish and French researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic hazards for the island. The research shows that the area of greatest volcanic activity is one of the most heavily populated areas in the north east of the island, which has suffered 24 eruptions over the ... more Storms cause flooding in Spain's Canary Islands 
Tenerife, Spain (AFP) Feb 2, 2010Torrential rains caused flooding, disrupted travel and left thousands without electricity in Spain's Canary Islands, a popular tourist destination, local authorities said Tuesday. Classes were cancelled on all seven islands of the Atlantic Ocean archipelago located off the West African coast which is home to some two million people. "We remain in a state of emergency due to adverse weath ... more |
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Haiti counts 150,000 quake victims, fears 200,000 more dead
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 25, 2010The final nationwide toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake is expected to be 150,000 dead, Health Minister Alex Larsen said on Monday, with 90,000 bodies already counted. "We're expecting a figure of around 150,000 dead," Larsen told journalists in Port-au-Prince of the nationwide toll. "At the health ministry, we've counted more than 90,000 bodies," he said, including those counted b ... more Haiti quake toll to top 150,000: minister
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 24, 2010Haitian health officials expect the confirmed death toll from the January 12 earthquake to top 150,000 on Monday and fear another 200,000 could be dead in the wreckage, a minister said. "The CME (health commission) told me that they expected a figure of 150,000 dead by Monday," Communications Minister Marie-Lawrence Jocelyn Lassegue told AFP, referring to those bodies that have been found an ... more US paratroopers meet the bogeyman in quake-hit Haiti slum 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 23, 2010Troops from the US 82nd Airborne met the bogeyman in Port-au-Prince's notorious Cite Soleil slum on Saturday during a reconnaissance mission to set up an aid distribution point for quake victims. "He's a bogeyman and the people here smashed his brains out with rocks because they thought he was stealing children from families sleeping on the street," says the troops' Creole interpreter, Reggi ... more Haitian man rescued from rubble after 11 days 
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 24, 2010Rescuers pulled a man alive from the rubble on Saturday 11 days after Haiti's devastating earthquake, raising hopes of finding more survivors even after the government called off search efforts. Wismond Exantus, 25, said he survived his ordeal in the ruins of the grocer's shop where he worked by drinking Coca-Cola and eating snacks, a rare tale of hope from a disaster that has claimed more t ... more |
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