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Casualties of the 2010 Haiti earthquake that struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on January 12, 2010 include both civilian and government officials, locals and foreigners, though the overwhelming majority of those injured and wounded in the quake where Haitian civilians. No official death toll has been listed, but unofficial estimates number in the hundreds of thousands. While the vast majority of those killed were poor residents of Port-au-Prince, a number of public figures perished in the earthquake, including government officials, clergy members, musicians, and foreign civilian and military personnel working with the United Nations.

Background

USGS intensity map

The earthquake occurred on 12 January 2010 approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) WSW from the country’s capital Port-au-Prince at 16:53 UTC-5 [1] on the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system.[2] The earthquake was measured a magnitude of 7.0 Mw earthquake[1] and was followed by a series of aftershocks, fourteen of them between magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9.[3] The main areas affected by the quake were Port-au-Prince and its suburbs, though it was also felt in several surrounding countries and regions, including Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and the bordering country of Dominican Republic. [4][5] In spite of this, casualties from the earthquake were only reported in Haiti.

Much of Port-au-Prince’s infrastructure was significantly damaged or destroyed in the earthquake, including the Presidential Palace , the National Assembly building, the Port-au-Prince Cathedral, hospitals, schools and the main prison.[6][7][8] All hospitals were destroyed or so badly damaged that they were abandoned.[9] In addition, the facilities of foreign governments and non-government organizations were badly damaged in the quake, including the headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), which reportedly collapsed.[10] One factor that led to a large number of casualties was that private homes and business across Port-au-Prince and its suburbs were leveled, injuring and killing an unknown number of people.

Casualties from earthquake

The earthquake struck in the most populated area of the country and the International Red Cross has stated that as many as 3 million people have been affected by the quake,[11]. Estimates of the number of dead range from 30,000 to as many as 100,000.[12] [13] Despite the fact that these estimates have been widely reported, the actual number of confirmed dead remains low. One factor that compounded the number casualties in the early days of the earthquake was a lack of medical and rescue infrastructure and personnel. Medical facilities had been badly damaged in the earthquake and both Haitian and foreign medical staff, police, and military personnel themselves became victims of the earthquake. Soon after the quake struck appeals for international aid were issued by Haitian government officials, including from Raymond Joseph, Haiti's ambassador to the United States. Neighboring Dominican Republic was the first country to give aid to Haiti.[14] And the non-governmental organization Giving Children Hope distributed much-needed medicines and supplies.[15] International organization also began large-scale fund raising campaigns for aid to Haiti, including campaigns by the International Red Cross [16] and relief charities in Britain. [17] In addition, the government of the United States issued orders for deployment to the U.S. Army's 1st Battalion, 73rd Infantry from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which is scheduled to deploy along with the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson.[18] The U.S. Navy also announced on 13 January 2010 that the hospital ship Comfort and amphibious helicopter carrier Bataan will be deployed to assist in the humanitarian relief efforts.[19] The American government also announced that it would provide $100 million dollars for the aid effort in Haiti.[20] Partners in Health, the largest health care provider in rural Haiti, also provided aid to from Port-au-Prince.[21] Despite the domestic and international relief efforts, many Haitians in the initials days after the earthquake did not have access to health care.

Haitian casualties

The vast majority of those injured and killed in the earthquake were Haitian. Though global media has published few specific details concerning the number Haitians killed, there have been reports of the deaths of Haitian public figures. According to Haitian-American musician Wyclef Jean, Haitian hip hop artist Jimmy O. Barikad was killed in the quake.[22] Also killed was Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot, 63, the Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, who died when the archdiocese offices collapsed.[23] Other individuals reported missing and feared dead include

United Nations casualties

The UN headquarters hosting the stabilization mission for Haiti (MINUSTAH), at the Christopher Hotel in Port-au-Prince, suffered a devastating collapse, concentrating early UN rescue efforts on their own personnel. Most of MINUSTAH's 9,000 troops and police were located elsewhere.[24] According to French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, all personnel inside the U.N. building, including mission head Hédi Annabi, appear to have died in the earthquake. He said his information had come from the French ambassador in Haiti.[25][26] 150 UN peacekeepers are currently missing and 22 confirmed dead as of 14 January.[24] In response to the earthquake, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said US$10 million would be released immediately from the world body's central emergency response fund to assist aid efforts.[27][28]

  • The head of the UN mission in Haiti, Hédi Annabi, who was meeting with a Chinese delegation at the time of the disaster,[26] was confirmed by President René Préval to have died in the earthquake.
  • The deputy head of the UN mission in Haiti, Luiz Carlos da Costa, is missing.[29]
  • 22 U.N. peacekeepers (soldiers, police officers and personnel) are confirmed dead and 150 UN Staff members remain unaccounted for:[30]
    •  Argentina: One gendarme was killed[29][31] from a 600-member peacekeeping force including a field hospital and 2 helicopters
    •  Brazil: 14 Brazilian soldiers were killed, four are missing and 14 were injured.[32] Brazil has a 1200-member peacekeeping force in Haiti.[33]
    •  Canada: One Canadian RCMP police officers of the international training cadre has been confirmed dead, another is reported missing. Supt. Doug Coates, the acting commissioner of MINUSTAH, is currently missing and Sgt. Mark Gallagher is reported as having been killed.<ref="G&M">Ha, Tu Thanh (14 January 2010). "Maritime Mountie found dead in Haiti". Globe and Mail. Retrieved 14 Januart 2010. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)</ref> Canada has an 82-member peacekeeping police force in Haiti.[34][35] All 42 members of the SPVM, 23 members of the SQ and the five members of the Canadian Forces deployed to Haiti with MINUSTAH have been accounted for, as safe.[36][37]
    •  Chad: One Chadian police officer was killed.[38][39]
    •  China: At least eight Chinese police officers died in the earthquake and another 10 are unaccounted for.[40] China has a 125-member peacekeeping police detachment in Haiti.[41]
    •  Jordan: Three Jordanian police officers were killed and 21 soldiers and policemen were injured.[40] Among the Jordanian casualties were majors Atta Issa Hussein and Ashraf Ali Jayoussi and corporal Raed Faraj Kal-Khawaldeh.[42]
    •  Philippines: Four Filipino peacekeepers in Haiti are missing as a result of the earthquake.[43]

Foreign casualties

At the time of the earthquake there were a large number of foreigners in Haiti, including non-governmental workers, businessmen, Christian missionaries, and foreign passport holders of Haitian descent. The largest number of foreigners in Haiti was from neighboring countries, including an estimated 40,000-45,000 American citizens [44] and 6,000 Canadians. [45] An official of the Dominican Republic reported that there were 2,600 Dominicans living in Haiti as “legal residents.” [46]

    •  Brazil: Pediatrician, relief worker and Nobel Peace Prize nominee Zilda Arns, from the organization Pastoral da Criança, was killed in the quake.[47]
    •  Canada: Three Canadian citizens have been confirmed dead: Georges Anglade, a Montreal university professor for 30 years, and his wife, Mireille, and Yvonne Martin of Elmira, Ontario, a missionary with the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada, died when her guesthouse in Port-au-Prince collapsed,[48] 90 minutes after she arrived in Haiti.[49]
    •  Dominican Republic: At least two Dominican engineers, José Rafael Medina and Guillermo Peña, who worked for the firm Muñoz Mera y Fondeur died after an office building collapsed. [46] One Dominican citizen working for the Dominican embassy also perished. [46] Another ten Dominicans are reported as missing. They were working on the Port-au-Prince/Mirebalais highway.[50]
    •  Mexico: A Mexican woman died when the hospital she was in collapsed.[51] The Mexican government reported that more than forty Mexican citizens were in the country at the time of the earthquake. [51]
    •  New Zealand: New Zealand citizen, Emmanuel Sanson-Rejouis, and two of his daughters were killed in the collapse of the Karibe Hotel.[52]
    •  Taiwan:A Taiwanese woman was killed when the house she was in collapsed. She was the daughter of an engineer working for a Taiwanese government-invested company that built roads and bridges. [53]
    •  United States: Victoria DeLong, a cultural affairs officer who spent 27 years working for the State Department, was killed when her house collapsed. DeLong is the first American to be confirmed dead.[54] Ben Larson, a senior student at Wartburg Theological Seminary who was in Haiti with his wife and cousin, is believed to have been killed in the earthquake.[55]

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