Jan. 27
A young girl is rescued after being trapped since the earthquake. Haitians found her today, and a French rescue team came to pull her out of the rubble.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jan. 27
Hundreds of Haitians shouted with joy when French rescuers finished digging and pulled Darline Etienne from a jumble of concrete and steel, wrapped her in a golden foil blanket and hurried her to an ambulance.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jan. 27
Rescue workers dig a girl out of the rubble 15 days after the earthquake hit. "She's breathing pretty weakly. She's very dehydrated, but she will be fine," said Christopher Renou, one of the French rescuers. "We're very optimistic that she will be fine."
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jan. 27
The rescue followed more than five hours of digging. It began when a group of young men picked their way along the hillside and heard a voice.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
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Jan. 26
A man walks at a makeshift camp at a golf course in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti needs at least five to 10 years of reconstruction help after its people were "bloodied, martyred and ruined" by the devastating earthquake this month, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said.
Carlos Barria-Reuters
Jan. 26
Women clean the rubble and streets of the Carrefour Feuille area of Port-au-Prince in a UNDP "Cash for Work" program. Haiti could start relocating homeless earthquake survivors from its ruined capital this week.
Reuters
Jan. 25
Haitians line up for food in downtown Port-au-Prince. They had to disperse after people in the front of the line broke through and grabbed all the food being distributed.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 25
A baby with possible congenital hydrocephalus is transported by Navy helicopter to a field hospital with teams of U.S. medical personnel as part of the Federal Medical Disaster Team. A simple medical procedure is usually done to alleviate the condition, but it is unavailable in Haiti and the field hospital is not equipped to perform it.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Soldiers from the U.S. 82nd Airborne assist with the transport of a baby with possible congenital hydrocephalus, handing the baby down from a roof. The medical care available in Haiti is not sufficient to care for the child. One of the doctors involved in the case sent out a plea to anyone wealthy enough to help bring the baby to a hospital.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Dr. Dan Purdim from the MO-1 DMAT, holds the possibly ill baby.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jan. 24
A woman clasps rosary beads while attending a worship service in Port-au-Prince at Cathedral Notre Dame, which was destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
A mantilla covers a woman's head in Port-au-Prince during a worship service at Cathedral Notre Dame.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
Rita Joulute mourns after attending a worship service at Cathedral Notre Dame in Port-au-Prince. "Everybody died," the 64-year-old Haitian woman said.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
A Haitian woman is overcome with grief in Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
A woman prays during a worship service in Port-au-Prince at Cathedral Notre Dame, which was destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
U.S. soldiers with the 82nd Airborne attempt to stop locals from taking goods out of stores destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
Haitian locals haul goods from stores destroyed by the earthquake after U.S. soldiers leave the area.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
U.S. soldiers attempt to intercede with local Haitians to prevent them from taking goods from stores destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
Pierre Rodrigue hangs his American flag on the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince. He has family members in America and says he is grateful the U.S. is helping Haiti.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
U.S. soldiers step in to stop Haitians from removing goods from Port-au-Prince stores destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 24
Jeune Joseph Andre Ronaid prays at the remains of Sacre Couer church in Port-au-Prince. "The church is not collapsed, it is within us," he said.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
Haitians line up for food and a portable radio in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
Haitians stand in line for food and a portable radio in Port-au-Prince amid tight security. The Haitian government plans to house 400,000 displaced Haitians in tent cities with hopes to improve sanitation and security while the capital takes the first steps to rebuild.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 23
Hundreds of people gather for an all-day prayer session at Champs de Mars in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 23
Haitians participate in a day of prayer at Champs du Mars in Port-au-Prince. U.N. officials estimate that nearly 1 million Haitians have been displaced by the quake.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 23
Hundreds of the capital's Catholic faithful gather to bury Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who was killed with scores of Cathedral Notre Dame parishioners and Bishop Charles Benoit, the city's vicar general.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
Mourners remember Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot and Bishop Charles Benoit at Cathedral Notre Dame, which was destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
Rescuers carry Wismon Exentus Jean Pierre, who was trapped for 11 days in the rubble of the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
Rescuers gather after finding Wismon Exentus Jean Pierre, who was trapped for 11 days after the quake. The Haitian government Saturday placed the death toll from the 7.0-magnitude quake at 111,000 and rising.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
Nuns line the street outside a demolished Port-au-Prince cathedral as the casket of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot makes its way to the cemetery. Miot died in the Jan. 12 earthquake.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
A woman in Champs de Mars, Haiti, joins in an all-day prayer session.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 23
A boy holds a cross during an all-day prayer session in Champs de Mars, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 22
A building catches fire in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 22
A firefighter watches from his truck as a blaze consumes a warehouse in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 22
Firefighters with minimal equipment battle a blaze in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 22
A woman salvages clothing from a store in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
John Hannon, member of the MA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team from Boston, carries an injured child at the field hospital in Port-au-Prince. The field hospital includes a surgical response unit.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 21
John Hannon, member of the MA-1 Disaster Medical Assistance Team from Boston, touches the face of an injured child.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 21
U.S. soldiers prepare to transport an injured Haitian to a field hospital.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Surgical supervisor Carolyn Blayney wipes away tears as Romain Marie Carida lies dying at the field hospital after being pulled from the rubble of a house.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Marie Romain Carida lies dying the same day she was pulled from rubble. "Nobody deserves to end their life like that," says Roberta Dee, a nurse from Massachusetts who planned to sit with the quake victim so she would not die alone.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 21
A paper taped to Marie Romain Carida's hospital sheet says that the 84-year-old Haitian woman had been trapped under a fallen house for 10 days.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Paramedic Mike Vojak examines Marie Romain Carida, 84, who was pulled from the rubble of a house 10 days after the quake.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 21
Roberta Dee, a nurse from Massachusetts General Hospital, wipes her eyes as she watches over Marie Romain Carida at a field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 21
Nurse Jenni Lewis makes 7-year-pold Rosmeda Lafontaine laugh as she tends to Lafontaine's injuries.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 21
The field hospital in Port-au-Prince tends to injured victims of the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 22
Clenette Cermont writhes in pain as she is treated for leg injury in a makeshift clinic run by the Brigada Medica Cubana in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Doctors are treating injuries caused directly by the earthquake, including crushed limbs and unhealed wounds.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 22
Jennie Dorsainvil, 1, screams in pain during treatment at a makeshfit clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 22
A young boy waits for treatment at a makeshift clinic in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 22
A woman sweeps the street outside the damaged Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 22
Jennie Dorsainvil, 11, waits for treatment at a makeshift clinic in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 22
Brazilian soldiers with the U.N. distribute food and water to Haitians in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 21
Haitians stand in line for food distribution from the U.S. military.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
A helicopter flies over the earthquake damaged presidential palace. Two aftershocks rattled Port-au-Prince and other Haitian towns on Thursday.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
U.S. troops work to prevent people from stampeding to receive food and water at the Petionville Country Club in Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
A member of the U.S. 82nd Airborne stands guard while people wait in line for food.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
A young boy stands in a relative's arm as lines of people form to receive food and water at the Petionville Country Club.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Patience has worn thin as hunger and filth spread, the injured wait for treatment, and survivors bury tens of thousands of the dead.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Haitians line up in long, crowded lines for food.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Cassandra Belony, 19, talks on her cellphone as she sleeps on the street with other Haitians whose homes were damaged from the quake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Siene Noel, who lost five of her six children, cries outside her home. Noel's surviving daughter will help Noel care for her grandchildren.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
A Haitian woman surveys the damage to the buildings in Port-au-Prince. People are beginning to pick up their lives after the quake.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
A man sifts through the rubble as he tries to rebuild his life after the earthquake.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 21
Siene Noel, who lost five of six children in the earthquake, stands in front of the remains of her home.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 20
A young boy keeps his eyes on soldiers of the U.S. 82 Airborne Division outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 20
Children shield themselves against the dust from a helicopter transporting patients from the United Nations compound in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 20
Motorcyclists wait to give looters a ride, as people continue to take items from the shops in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 20
Survivors with broken limbs are transported by a truck to the general hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
A young girl naps on her luggage as she waits to depart by boat from Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 20
A girl stands on shore as Haitians crowd a ship leaving the earthquake-ravaged city of Port-au-Prince for other parts in Haiti.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Vemah Cade, 19, had her leg amputated after it was badly injured when part of a house fell on her during the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Fabie Mark, 7, recovers from injuries suffered in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Mark Alain Dery, an infectious-disease specialist from the Tulane University School of Medicine, right, offers Lourdie Grand Pierre her medication and a smile as she recovers from her injuries.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Haitians gather at the palace in Port-au-Prince, which was destroyed by the Jan. 12 earthquake. A strong aftershock jolted awake thousands of earthquake victims and relief workers in the ravaged capital early on Wednesday, Jan. 20.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
As the U.N. Security Council approved 3,500 additional peacekeepers for the Haiti mission Tuesday, the U.S. military and other foreign forces began dropping food from planes, delivering troops by helicopter to volatile neighborhoods, and working to prepare other entry points for aid deliveries.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
U.S. military keep watch in a field near the airstrip of Haiti's airport. U.S. and Canadian military forces have been designated to guard food distribution sites as they open, freeing the U.N. security forces to patrol and keep order.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Rescue workers search for a second trapped person at the Cathedral Notre Dame after a successful rescue there earlier.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Christian Kuperbank, from Argentina, hugs his search dog Lola. Rescue workers search for a second trapped person at the Cathedral Notre Dame.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
A U.S. soldier watches as rescue workers search for a second trapped person at the Cathedral Notre Dame.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Rescuers continue to work at the Cathedral Notre Dame.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
The body of Monsignor Charles Benoit, general vicar of the Port-au-Prince Archdiocese, is recovered by a Mexican rescue team near the Cathedral Notre Dame.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Sister Sorbertha Lopez Chaves and rescue workers pray over the body of Monsignor Charles Benoit, general vicar of the Port-au-Prince Archdiocese.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
People wait to take a boat to Jeremie from Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 19
People wait to take a boat to Jeremie from the ravaged capital Port-au-Prince, where the already impoverished population is anxious for food, water and other aid to arrive.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 19
Aid crews are working to increase access to Haiti's damaged ports and better coordinate scores of military and relief flights that continue to ferry workers and supplies in and out of the earthquake zone.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 19
An aerial view of makeshift tents in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
The structure of the Port-Au-Prince cathedral was devastated in the quake.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
A week after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the capital, most Haitians are still waiting for relief in any form. Over the weekend, buses began transporting people out of the chaotic Port-au-Prince to Haiti's countryside.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Mobs of people walk through the streets of Port-au-Prince as they try to return to normal life a week after the earthquake struck.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Smoke wafts over the city a week after the devastating earthquake shattered the city.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
A man removes textiles from a destroyed store in Port-au-Prince. Thousands of U.S. Marines arrived in Haiti to help control outbursts of looting and violence that have slowed relief efforts to help survivors of the powerful earthquake that hit the country last week.
Ariana Cubillos-AP
Jan. 19
A Haitian policeman aims into a crowd during looting in Port-au-Prince. The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved 3,500 extra troops and police officers to beef up security in Haiti and ensure that desperately needed aid gets to earthquake victims.
Francois Mori-AP
Jan. 19
A man is grabbed by a group of men during the looting. Local police fired into the air repeatedly Tuesday morning in the hope of keeping the gathering crowds away from intact shops.
Francois Mori-AP
Jan. 19
A person buys water at a bus station near the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince. On Monday, the International Committee of the Red Cross started to distribute essential household supplies in the Delmas neighborhood, officials said. However, the distribution had to be interrupted owing to the tense atmosphere.
Carlos Barria-Reuters
Jan. 19
A U.S. Navy helicopter lands in front of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince. Black Hawk helicopters landed at the National Palace and unloaded a contingent of U.S. troops, but they did not immediately venture outside the iron bar fence, where hundreds of Haitians pressed up against the metal to watch them.
Ricardo Arduengo-AP
Jan. 19
Haitians carry a coffin in Port-au-Prince. Though a week has passed since the initial devastation of the quake, many dead are still being recovered. The stench of decomposing bodies fills the streets, and limbs poke from the rubble.
Juan Barreto-AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 19
Haitians wait to receive rations from U.S. forces at a distribution zone in Port-au-Prince. U.S. military officials said they are working to open up the ports in Haiti so they can funnel in more food and other aid.
Jorge Silva-Reuters
Jan. 19
U.S. soldiers of the 82nd Airborne division walk in the street from the Presidential Palace to the general hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince.
Thomas Coex-AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 19
Haitians line the banks of the main wharf hoping to get a ride in any one of many small boats for hire in Port-au-Prince. "Getting the ports open is crucial because you can only bring in so many planes and the air wings are full" of items that have come in, U.S. Marine Maj. Maria Marte said. "The airport is trying to push as much as they can, but getting the port operational will impact getting the supplies they need."
Julie Jacobson-AP
Jan. 19
Rescue workers Los Angeles assist the Dominican Republic Civil Defense Rescue Team as they search for earthquake victim Shirley Legagneur trapped in the rubble of the Unibank where she worked. The team had toiled all day and throughout the night trying to reach her after getting signs of life from a search dog and some response through three taps from Legagneur. The team gave up the search after both they and a rescue team from Los Angeles no longer detected any sign of life, leaving weeping relatives who had been given hope during the day that she would be found.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
A rescue worker from the Dominican Republic Civil Defense Rescue Team silences the crowd so they could listen for sounds of life as they search for earthquake victim Shirley Legagneur trapped in the rubble of the Unibank where she worked.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Rescue workers from the Dominican Republic Civil Defense Rescue Team search for Shirley Legagneur in the rubble of the Unibank, where she worked.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
A tear rolls down the face of Heriberto Chavez, a rescue worker with Dominican Republic Civil Defense Rescue Team, as he embraces Rachelle Doucet, sister-in-law of Haitian earthquake victim Shirley Legagneur. Haiti Fire Chief Gael Painson, who had pulled others from the rubble, said he would come back today and continue to dig, if only to retrieve her body.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Rescue workers from the Dominican Republic Civil Defense Rescue Team search for Shirley Legagneur.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 19
Weeping relatives of Haiti earthquake victim Shirley Legagneur stand by after workers ceased the search. Rachelle Doucet, left, Legagneur's sister-in-law and Nicole Alvarez, Legagneur's aunt, are held by Haitian Fire Chief Gael Painson.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Families crowd onto buses to depart Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The number of refugees fleeing the capital city surged Monday, as thousands fought to get on buses leaving for the countryside.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
Children are loaded into buses to evacuate the city at the main bus station in Port-au-Prince. Prices for tickets doubled as the buses jostled in long lines at gas stations.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
People clamor onto buses in an attempt to escape the ruined city. Without money to pay for the journey to the countryside, many families were stranded with luggage beside the buses.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
A tear trickles from a woman's eye as a rescue attempt unfolds in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
A woman, rescued by the Los Angeles County rescue team, is tended by her family members on the way to a hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
Boys chase after looters along the Grand Rue area of Port-au-Prince. Many survivors and observers worry that if the pace of aid does not quicken, there could be widespread chaos and violence as people compete for the scarce resources.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
Children throw rocks as buildings were looted along Grand Rue in Port-au-Prince. With relief materials slowly trickling out to citizens, competition for existing goods has become intense in sections of the city.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
A young boy waits for trinkets to be dropped from above as people loot items from a general store along Grand Rue.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 16
A young boy watches as smoke billows from the burning Supreme Court building in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
A member of the U.S. Air Force Pararescue directs traffic away from a successful rescue in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
Families camp in tents at the University Adventist of Haiti in Carrefour, Haiti.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 18
Earthquake survivors get water from a firetruck. Desperate Haitians continue to struggle to find food and water while guarding their meager possessions against the advance of looters as the United States and other nations struggled to jump-start a sluggish relief effort.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Much-needed water is distributed in Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Haitians await access to water in Port-au-Prince. The U.S. 82nd Airborne is establishing small posts around the city to protect food and water drops from looters.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Haitian earthquake survivors sleep on the streets after losing their homes. Young Guerline Bestige cries after her parents put a scarf on her when they noticed her photo being taken.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Haitians without shelter sleep on the streets of Port-au-Prince. In the capital center, at the sprawling tent cities by the destroyed National Palace, residents said they have not seen a single international aid group distribute food in five days.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
A crippled dog roams the streets of Port-au-Prince .
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Haitians sweep debris from the earthquake damage as people take goods from destroyed stores in the marketplace.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
The dearth of security forces on the ground in Port-au-Prince is actually delaying the provision of food and medical aid, some aid workers say. For instance, the Colombian Red Cross has a mobile clinic on the ground, but it can't set it up until security is arranged.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
With massive amounts of aid promised but not yet delivered because of the difficulty of operating in the crippled country, amid what U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called "one of the most serious crises in decades," the living banded together outdoors without shelter, sustenance or protection.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Officials in Haiti fear violence and looting will get worse if the pace of aid does not improve.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Survivors take goods from destroyed markets. "We worry," said Laurence Acluche, a Haitian National Police officer. "We are all concerned about food."
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Survivors scavenge for remaining goods in a ravaged Port-au-Prince marketplace. On Sunday, many merchants were afraid to open their stores for fear that they would be overrun by hungry, desperate quake victims.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Survivors dig through a marketplace to find what's left of the city after the 7.0 magnitude quake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Local suppliers in Port-au-Prince have been sharply raising their prices, sometimes doubling the cost of items such as juice, water and rice.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
One Haitian grabs what is left of a destroyed marketplace.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Even as Navy and Coast Guard ships arrived offshore, a round-the-clock airlift intensified and additional dignitaries appeared, the frantic victims of last week's 7.0-magnitude earthquake were growing more fearful as they pleaded for help and security in a lawless city.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jan. 18
Earthquake survivors find what they can in a marketplace while waiting for relief aid.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Haitians burn debris from the earthquake damage.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Rubble burns in a wrecked neighborhood of Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 18
Fires finish off debris left by the earthquake. There was almost no Haitian law enforcement present on the streets of Port-au-Prince on Sunday.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 16
With the Supreme Court building burning in the background, a woman covers her face from a body lying in the street.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 17
Haitian police try to control the chaos as bodies are burned nearby.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
Haitians take goods from stores in a marketplace.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
A man manages to smile as he makes his way through the wreckage.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
A body burns amidst the rubble in the Haitian capital. The Red Cross said access to food, water, shelter, sanitation and medical care remain extremely limited throughout the city.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
The Cathedral Notre Dame was destroyed in the earthquake. Here, a woman sits and looks at the remnants of the church as fires from burning bodies fill the sky.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
Sarah Mesa, 70, stands before the ruins of the Cathedral Notre Dame, where she had been a parishioner.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
Haitians pause from prayer at Saint Louis Roi de France church, which was damaged in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
A priest stands atop the wreckage of Saint Louis Roi de France Church.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
A Haitian grasps rosary beads during prayer at Cathedral Notre Dame.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17.
Injured survivor Manoucheka St. Cyr gets help from her cousin Sundor Mickerlange.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 17
Dr. Joseline Marhone Pierre weeps as she listens to a church service. "I lost everything," she said, including her home and two cousins who were trapped for three days and eventually died.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
A Haitian man stands amidst the rubble in Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 16
A Haitian policeman walks through an empty jail in the Haitian capital.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 17
Luslene Alelas holds her injured daughter Marie Jose Ambrose, 3. On Sunday, medical teams struggled to cope with an overwhelming number of injured patients while an international armada of would-be helpers vied in frustration for access to the disaster zone.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jan. 17
Haitians share an embrace during a worship service in a tent camp next to a church that was destroyed in the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jan. 17
Injured survivor Marie France Coartin drives by with a religious order called Orden de Malta from the Dominican Republic.
Carol Guzy-Carol Guzy/Washington Post
Jean Baptist, a teacher, is rescued from Port-au-Prince's St. Gerard Technical School by a Mexican team. There had been concern over the more than 60 students trapped at the school after Tuesday's earthquake that rocked Haiti.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
The team pulls Jean Baptist from the school. Mexican federal police dogs located the survivors after other teams had found no sign of life.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Rescuers work at the St. Gerard Technical School. After the earthquake, relatives of students trapped at the school said they received cellphone calls from the students.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Smoke billows from the burning Supreme Court building in Port-au-Prince. Development experts are considering how the country can be rebuilt after the devastation of the earthquake.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
A woman carries a bucket she retrieved from a water truck in Port-au-Prince after days of no food or water. Governments and aid agencies were working to deliver food, water and medical supplies.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
People line up at a water truck in Port-au-Prince. Aid delivery was hampered by congestion at the airport, damage at the seaport, poor roads, and the fear of looters and robbers.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
People wait for water from a truck. In the earthquake's aftermath, food, water and fuel prices spiked, and people gathered around open spigots and broken water pipes to gather what they could in plastic cooking-oil jugs and buckets.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
People line up for water. The State Department said Friday that a Navy carrier arriving here was carrying 600,000 daily rations of food, and that an additional $48 million in food assistance would be made available, enough to last several months. An estimated 100,000 containers for water are being shipped in, along with four water-purification systems.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
After days with no food or water, people loot a store on the main commerce street in Bel Air in Port-au-Prince. Along Grande Rue Dessalines, the commercial heart of the capital, at least six warehouses were seen being looted Saturday morning by groups of young men.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
A prisoner who could not avoid falling debris lies in the courtyard of the local jail in Port-au-Prince. Inmates are believed to have escaped during the earthquake.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
Haitian police fire their guns to keep people from looting a store. The nearly collapsed Haitian government is at least nominally in charge of the relief effort.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
People were looting stores in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, taking bags of rice and plastic sheeting.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
People who have been without food and water loot stores. White House and State Department officials said Saturday that the Haitian government was establishing 14 food and water distribution points across the city.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Looters try to get stuff out of stores in Port-au-Prince. Haiti imports almost everything, and now all the stores are closed, some cracked and crumbling.
Nikki Kahn-The Washington Post
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks beside Haiti President Rene Preval. Clinton assured the Haitian people Saturday that the United States would work with their government to ensure the country emerges "stronger and better" after this week's disaster.
Eduardo Munoz-Reuters
A man walks past corpses at the national cemetery in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, days after the quake. Bodies were in streets, in a mass grave in the cemetery, and in narrow lanes in the cemetery that wind between the tombs.
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Haitian people grab on buses to try to leave Port-au-Prince. Many roads have been blocked off with tires, piles of trash, and plentiful rubble, complicating efforts by rescue crews, engineers and aid workers to get around.
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Jan. 15
People use a generator to charge their cellphones in the open streets in Port-Au-Prince. For many Haitians the focus shifted from the dead to the living, and how to make ends meet in a city rapidly running out of what few resources existed before the quake.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 15
A mother waits to have her young daughter treated at the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince. In a country where the government has all but collapsed, its economy has been crushed and its people have been left destitute, the challenge of rebuilding is daunting.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 15
A man is surrounded by family members at the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince. The hospital is deluged with patients seeking care following the massive earthquake that devastated the impoverished country.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 15
A woman, moaning in pain, is cradled by her family members as they move her into the shade at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 15
A young girl still dressed in her school uniform is treated for an arm injury at the capital's hospital. On Friday, desperate Haitians scuffled over food and water, and at night, in a capital where power was scant, wandered in the dark. The bodies of the dead clogged streets and cemeteries.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 15
A young girl sits in the shade at the hospital. Rescue teams waited anxiously for equipment and colleagues who had not been able to land because of limited space and communications difficulties.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 15
The head of the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, walks past a body. Public health concerns mounted among aid officials and Haitians over the abundance of corpses and the diseases they may soon carry.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 15
Haitians camp out near the Presidential Palace, which was damaged in the earthquake. Slices of hope still remain for Haitians in spite of the dire living conditions and tragedy.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 15
Haitians set up camp near the damaged Presidential Palace. The search for water and food grew increasingly desperate Saturday for millions of Haitians, with some of the most battered neighborhoods still awaiting even the most basic goods from the international aid effort.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 15
Earthquake survivors camp in the streets of Port-au-Prince. Thousands of Haitians abandoned damaged homes for squalid tent cities springing up in even the smallest public spaces.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 15
Marie St. John camps out in the streets of Port-au-Prince after surviving the earthquake. The capital, where as many of a third of Haiti's 9 million people live, appeared frozen in the grim aftermath of the earthquake.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 15
Therese Lautue, left, and her neighbor, who both lost their homes in the earthquake, camp out in the streets of Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 15
Therese Lautue is one of many residents of Haiti's capital who lost homes in the devastating earthquake. Haitians by the thousands have been spending nights in the streets.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 15
The body of earthquake victim Rene Morancy is loaded onto a truck collecting bodies in Port-au-Prince. Relief and rescue efforts are still underway after Tuesday's major earthquake.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
A search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County worked with the French Civil Protection team at the Hotel Montana, which before the earthquake was the most popular hotel in the Port-au-Prince area. It was a de facto headquarters for U.N. officials, diplomats, well-to-do Haitians and foreign correspondents.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
"Because the building is so big, it is possible that there are others still waiting for us," French Civil Protection Service Cmdr. Samuel Bernes said of the Hotel Montana. His team, working with a Fairfax County, Va., group, rescued seven people.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
A team from Fairfax County, Va., and one from France freed a 60-year-old American man from the rubble at the Hotel Montana, first amputating one of his legs at the knee and then amputating the other above the ankle.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
The man rescued from the Hotel Montana outside Port-au-Prince had been trapped for three days, his legs pinned by fallen concrete. He was conscious and often spoke. He shared a space the size of a small closet -- or a large coffin -- with a dead man.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
The teams from Fairfax and France transport the man they rescued from the rubble of the Hotel Montana in Petionville.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
The American citizen who was rescued from the Hotel Montana is evacuated by helicopter. France's Samuel Bernes said of the potential for more survivors in the hotel: "We have not heard them, and the dogs have not smelled them. But we will stay a little longer and try as best we can."
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
A cross remains standing at the Cathedral Sacre Couer, damaged in the earthquake. Port-au-Prince is filled with the dead, but there are no funerals because there are few churches standing and no coffins for sale.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
Haitians load the body of an earthquake victim into a truck as they go collecting bodies across the city. As people heard trucks rumbling down the street, they would bring their dead to the curb.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
Haitians load the body of earthquake victim Rene Morancy onto a truck. The Haitian Red Cross has said 50,000 people might have perished in the quake, although other estimates have been higher.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
Elliane Garcon weeps as the body of her husband, Rene Morancy, is loaded onto a truck.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
A body lies in the wreckage of the Hotel Montana as a search-and-rescue team from Fairfax County and a French Civil Protection team work to find survivors. Dozens of people, or perhaps many more, are still buried in the rubble there and likely dead.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 15
Bodies pile up at the city morgue. There are more bodies inside, which is almost impossible to enter without special breathing equipment. Family members who approach the morgue area stumble forward, stop and retch.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
In this photo released by the United Nations, earthquake survivors' tents are seen between buildings in Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of thousands of homeless, injured and traumatized victims spent the night on the streets and sidewalks, transforming Port-au-Prince into a gigantic and under-equipped refugee camp after Tuesday's devastating earthquake.
Logan Abassi-AP
Jan. 14
A young boy watches people lining up to receive water from a firetruck in Port-au-Prince. Efforts to rescue, feed and treat tens of thousands of trapped or injured Haitians slowly gained momentum Friday morning, as relief crews struggled to gain a foothold on the third day after a devastating earthquake.
Marco Dormino-AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 14
A victim is carried into a Port-au-Prince hospital. The buildings that suffered the most damage seemed to be those that help the needy: schools, hospitals, churches.
Lynne Sladky-AP
Jan. 14
A police officer is on crowd control as Haitians watch international rescue groups from Belgium and Spain do search and rescue work.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
Reggie Claude, greeted by his mother, was rescued from the rubble of his home by international rescue groups Belgium First Aid and Support Team, ERICAM of Madrid and Grupo Rescate Emergencias from Castilla y Leon.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Reggie Claude, right, walks beside Oscar Vega Carrera from Groupo Rescate Emergencias from Castilla Y Leon after his son was rescued from the rubble of his home.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
Reggie Claude was rescued from the rubble of his home by international rescue groups Belgium First Aid and Support Team, ERICAM of Madrid and Grupo Rescate Emergencias from Castilla y Leon. His father, Reginald Claude, is at left.
Carol Guzy-Washington Post
Jan. 14
Reggie Claude is held by a member of the international rescue groups Belgium First Aid and Support Team, ERICAM of Madrid and Grupo Rescate Emergencias from Castilla y Leon after being rescued.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
A woman who had her leg amputated sits on a bed outside the Port-au-Prince General Hospital on Thursday.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 14
A young child is treated for injuries at Port-au-Prince General Hospital on Thursday.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 14
A man carries a coffin past the injured. Makeshift morgues and waiting rooms are appearing everywhere.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 14
Thousands are feared dead in the densely populated Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 14
Patients are laid out on the ground outside the Port-au-Prince General Hospital.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 14
Fearing the collapse of their homes due to aftershocks, families create temporary dwellings in a nearby park.
Nikki Kahn-Washington Post
Jan. 14
Mac Fanieh tries to rescue a teacher, trapped amid the rubble of the earthquake, as he crawls past a schoolgirl who died at St. Gerard Technical School in Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
Haitians desperately try to rescue schoolchildren at St. Gerard Technical School. The students called for help on their cellphones as they were trapped.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
Hilaire Nickes, a teacher at Ecole St. Gerard, is attended to after being rescued from the collapsed school. Nickes said while trapped he "confessed to God and said special prayers."
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
The American Red Cross is estimating that 50,000 people have perished after the 7.0 earthquake struck the nation.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
Cindy Tersme weeps for her 14-year-old brother, Jean Gaelle Dersmorne, who is amid the rubble of the collapsed St. Gerard school.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
"I can see my brother's feet but can't pull him out," said Cindy Tersme, who was at the St. Gerard school when the earthquake hit.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Bodies line the streets as Haitians desperately try to rescue those who are still alive.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
Nearly two days after the earthquake in Haiti, there are few signs of aid groups bringing assistance.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
A woman's body lies unattended as the the search to find survivors continues.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
A photo is held up of Ruth, a schoolgirl who died in the ruins of Ecole St. Gerard.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
A Haitian man tries to rescue a teacher trapped amid the debris of the earthquake as he crawls past Ruth, a student at Ecole St. Gerard.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
A young girl's certificate of identification is left in the midst of the rubble in Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 14
A statue depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ was toppled by the 7.0 magnitude earthquake at Ecole St. Gerard in Port-au-Prince. The quake leveled once-grand buildings and makeshift shacks alike.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
Haitians roam the streets of Port-au-Prince, saying they are fleeing "the water." With homes damaged, no electricity and fears of tsunami and aftershocks, they wander to find shelter and support.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
In the period before intensive relief efforts hit Haiti, residents are forced to seek refuge from the earthquake's effects wherever possible.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
Haiti's Presidential Palace shows significant damage from the earthquake that ruined Port-au-Prince.
Logan Abassi-Getty Images
Jan. 13
The battered body of a young woman is removed from the rubble in Port-au-Prince. "We fear the impact of this earthquake will be particularly devastating due to the vulnerability of Haiti's people," said Jon K. Andrus of the Pan American Health Organization.
Patrick Farrell-AP
Jan. 13
A body is found in the earthquake's aftermath as rescuers worked fervently to salvage what was left of Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
A body is discovered in Port-au-Prince. Communications networks were crippled across the island, making it difficult to determine the extent of the damage from town to town.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
An earthquake victim reacts as he is moved from a flatbed truck on to a plane to be transported for medical treatment in the Dominican Republic. A team of doctors from University/Jackson Memorial Ryder Trauma Center arrived in Haiti to aid in medical care for victims of the worst earthquake to hit the island in 200 years.
Carl Juste-AP
Jan. 13
Injured survivors are seen at a makeshift field hospital in Port-au-Prince. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation.
Joe Raedle-Getty Images
Jan. 13
A young Haitian girl sleeps with her mother and brother on a bunk after receiving treatment at an ad hoc medical clinic at United Nations Stabilization Mission In Haiti's (MINUSTAH) logistics base. President Obama dispatched U.S. military relief vessels and warships to stand off the Haitian coast, pledging "the deep condolences and unwavering support of the American people."
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Jan. 13
A Haitian boy receives treatment at an ad hoc medical clinic at the United Nations stabilization base. "An unknown number, tens if not hundreds of thousands, have suffered varying degrees of destruction to their homes," Vincenzo Pugliese, deputy spokesman for the U.N. mission in Haiti, said in a statement.
Logan Abassi-Getty Images
Jan. 13
Haitians work to rescue man who is trapped in the rubble from the earthquake that hit Port-au-Prince.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
Rescuers work to pull a man trapped in the rubble from the earthquake in Haiti.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
Haitians work to rescue a man trapped amid the shattered fragments of a collapsed building.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
Leo Pierre, left, who lost his pregnant wife, Kelly Milsoit, is comforted by her brother Guynsly Milsoit.
Carol Guzy-The Washington Post
Jan. 13
Girls cry, as a little girl is removed from the rubble after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The quake left a landscape of collapsed buildings, hospitals, schools, churches, ramshackle homes and the gleaming national palace.
Patrick Farrell, The Miami Herald-AP
Jan. 13
The body of an earthquake victim lies on a bed amid the rubble of a hotel in Port-au-Prince. The United States is sending rescuers to help search for survivors.
Juan Barreto-Getty Images
Jan. 13
Haitians wrap of the body of an earthquake victim. Tens of thousands of people were feared dead in Haiti's catastrophic earthquake, buried beneath demolished schools, hospitals and homes.
Reuters
Jan. 13
Injured people are prepared for air transport at the Port-au-Prince International Airport.
Joe Raedle-Getty Images
Jan. 13
People line up on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport to be evacuated by the U.S. Coast Guard. President Barack Obama ordered a swift and aggressive American rescue effort, while the European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute nation.
Joe Raedle-Getty Images
Jan. 13
Residents camp outside their houses for fear of a recurrence of an earthquake in Haiti.
Carlos Barria-Reuters
Jan. 13
People search for survivors under the rubble of a collapsed building the day after an earthquake hit Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday flattened the president's palace, the cathedral, hospitals, schools, the main prison and whole neighborhoods.
Ricardo Arduengo-AP
Jan. 13
Residents walk near body. A major earthquake rocked Haiti, and its president said he feared thousands were dead after the presidential palace, schools, hospitals and hillside shanties collapsed, leaving the Caribbean nation appealing for international help.
Carlos Barria-Reuters
Jan. 13
Injured people sit along Delmas Road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince.
Jorge Cruz-AP
Jan. 13
This United Nations TV video grab handout shows a man as he is rescued in Port-au-Prince. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti on Wednesday as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake hit that may have killed thousands. President Obama ordered a swift and aggressive rescue effort, while the European Union activated its crisis systems and the Red Cross and United Nations unlocked emergency funds and supplies for the destitute nation.
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Jan. 13
Injured people are attended to outside the Villa Creole Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
Ricardo Arduengo-AP
Jan. 13
U.N. staff leave the U.N. mission, known as MINUSTAH, after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Several bodies were pulled from the wreckage of the U.N. headquarters in Haiti which collapsed during a deadly earthquake. More than 100 U.N. staff members were missing, U.N. officials said.
Kena Betancur-Reuters
Jan. 13
A view of the Canape-Vert area the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Relief workers from around the world prepared to deal with the devastation, as foreign governments and international aid organizations mobilized to send assistance to the impoverished Caribbean nation.
Eduardo Munoz-REUTERS
Jan. 12
People run in the streets after the quake. The earthquake crushed thousands of buildings, including the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters, where, the U.N. reports, scores are thought to be buried.
Cris Bierrenbach-AP
Jan. 12
A man helps an injured woman on the ground outside a home in Port-au-Prince. U.N. officials in New York said the casualties could easily reach into the thousands.
Cris Bierrenbach-AP
Jan. 13
Debris lays in the street along the Delmas road in Port-au-Prince.
Jorge Cruz-AP
Jan. 13
A man is helped following the quake in Port-au-Prince. A vast international aid effort swung into action as a devastated President Rene Preval appealed for help for his nation.
Matthew Marek-AFP/Getty Images
Jan. 12
An injured person is treated at the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince. The International Red Cross says a third of Haiti's 9 million people may need emergency aid and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge from Tuesday's earthquake.
Ivanoh Demers-AP
Jan. 13
A young earthquake survivor is given first aid in a shanty town on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince. Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake to hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures.
Matt Marek/american Red Cross-AP
Jan. 13
Residents search for survivors among the wreckage and debris in Port-au-Prince.
Eduardo Munoz-REUTERS
Jan. 12
Damaged buildings are seen in the neighborhood of Petionville in Port-au-Prince.
Str-Reuters
Jan. 12
An injured person is seen amid the rubble in Port-au-Prince. The United States, France, China and the Dominican Republic are all sending search and rescue teams to Haiti, the United Nations said.
Jorge Cruz-AP
Jan. 13
Haiti's National Palace is seen damaged in Port-au-Prince. With communications networks crippled across the country, there are no firm estimates of the number of fatalities or wounded.
Jorge Cruz-AP
Jan. 13
A injured man carries his deceased daughter after the earthquake. "People are out in the streets, crying, screaming, shouting," Karel Zelenka, director of the Catholic Relief Services office in Haiti, said Tuesday night.
Eduardo Munoz-REUTERS
Jan. 13
A man gestures behind a person trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince Wednesday.
Jorge Cruz-AP
Jan. 13
People search for survivors among the ruins of a children's hospital following the earthquake. According to the Red Cross, up to 3 million people have been affected and thousands are feared dead.
Frederic Dupoux-Getty Images
Jan. 13
A man trapped in the rubble in Port-au-Prince calls for help.
Reuters TV-Reuters
Jan. 12
People come to the aid of a wounded man. Thousands of people gathered in public squares late into the night, singing hymns and weeping.
Frederic Dupoux-Getty Images
Jan. 12
A father carries his daughter through the streets of the Haitian capital.
Frederic Dupoux-Getty Images
Jan. 12
An injured child receives aid at the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince.
Ivanoh Demers-AP
Jan. 12
Countries around the globe are pledging to send rescue and relief teams to the country.
Ivanoh Demers-AP
Jan. 12
A woman faints in the arms of a medic in an emergency clinic in Petionville, where a hospital was wrecked and houses tumbled into a ravine.
Frederic Dupoux-Getty Images
Jan. 12
A fire breaks out near a Port-au-Prince building that was damaged in the earthquake.
Reuters TV-Reuters
Jan. 12
The body of an earthquake victim is seen in Port-au-Prince in this video grab.
Reuters Tv-Reuters
Jan. 12
Haitians carry a person injured in a 7.0-magnitude earthquake near Port-au-Prince.
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