Earthquake in Haiti: natural disaster that makes worse tragedy and poverty

The devastating earthquake that shook Haiti collapsed again to that impoverished nation in a tragedy even unknown today for the international community for the collapse of the systems of communications.

The broken into fragments news received in this capital are more and more alarming and refer the destruction of important part of the infrastructure of the capital of that country, the poorest in the hemisphere.

The first pictures published in the press of the Dominican Republic show part of the magnitude of the disaster, with images of numerous knocked down constructions, among them the emblematic National Palace, the government's headquarters.

Fuentes Haitian diplomats advanced that the president, René Preval, meets with life, still when they didn't offer bigger details on its situation.

The Haitipal televisore, of Puerto Príncipe, informed that also the ministries of Finances, of Work, of Communication and of Culture suffered serious damages.

The source pointed that the hospital of the residential area of Petion Villa, in the outsides of the capital, collapsed, but still lacks reports on damages to people.

United nations pointed out in an official statement that their facilities in Puerto Príncipe suffered serious damages and several of the employees are missing.

Still in the first hours of today lacks news on the death toll and wounded, but humanitarian sources suppose it is high.

In the Dominican Republic, the Seismological Institute of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo assured that the earthquake felt with force in several areas of this nation that shares the island The Spaniard with Haiti.

The director of the institution, Eugenio Polanco, affirmed that the earthquake is the strongest happened in the island after of 1946 which had an intensity of 8,1 grades in the scale of Richter.

The director of the Center of Operations of Emergency, general Juan Manuel Méndez, announced that the was adopted "Plan Lightning" that includes the mobilization of the armed forces, to help the population and to guarantee the security and the order.

According to the Geologic Institute of United States, the earthquake had an intensity of 7,0 grades in the scale of Ricther and happened to the 16:53 local time (21:53 UTC).

It epicentre was located to 15 kilometers to the Southwest of Puerto Príncipe, in the latitude 18,45 grades north, longitude 75,44 grades west, with a depth 10 kilometers, of agreement with that source.

The Institute informed of 12 later replics that varied from 5,9 to 4,5 grades in the scale of Richter.

Among so much, several countries of the region already announced the beginning of preparations for the shipment of help, among them Venezuela, Nicaragua, Argentina and United States.