More Haiti Earthquake

The death toll is said to be staggering, with at least 100,000 dead and perhaps several times that number:

The death toll from Haiti's 7.0 magnitude earthquake is at least 100,000 and could be several times that number, Haitian officials said Wednesday.

Haitian Consul General Felix Augustin said the capital Port-au-Prince "is flattened, CNN reported.

"More than 100,000 are dead," Felix Augustin told reporters.

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said it could be much worse, saying several hundred thousand people may have been killed.


Al-Jazeera explains the science behind the earthquake:



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Haiti is a country beset by natural disasters:



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Some earthquake footage:



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MSNBC:

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