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One person on the ground estimated, and I quote: “hundreds of thousands of casualties/dead.”

So this is of the Tsunami proportion. I was dreading this info.

Prayers.

I think someone said Port au Prince had a population of 2 million. %60 of it in substandard living. And six miles from a 7.0 EQ that was only 6 miles deep. And even if one can survive, the entire country as only 1000 hospital beds as per a poster. (Including the one in PauP that collapsed).

The aftershocks (in bold) following the initial quake are rather powerful and had to have added measureably to the structural damage. Large number of casualties/dead expected, following the quakes, due to injuries, exposure to the weather, shock, disease, lack of medical care/rescue/sanitation/municipal systems, etc. Yes, it's a very bad situation, and the extent of casualties/dead largely remains unknown. Once a list of the missing is compiled, some kind of scope on the casualties/dead will emerge.

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