Piles of Bodies After the January 12, 2010 Haiti Earthquake

corrico · #1 ● 04-22-2010, 06:06 PM

These photographs show bodies collected and piled in the open in Haiti in the days after the earthquake of January 12, 2010. The magnitude 7.0 quake struck about 25 kilometres southwest of Port-au-Prince, near Leogane, at a depth of around 13 kilometres. Estimates of the death toll vary enormously depending on the method used, from roughly 100,000 to over 300,000, and no figure has ever been settled on. Most of the images here carry the file-naming conventions of news agencies and newspaper picture systems, with embedded timestamps of January 14 and January 16, 2010, so they are press photographs taken in the first days of the response rather than anything originating on this forum. One caution about the set: two members of this thread independently identify the last image as being from the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 rather than from Haiti, and the poster does not dispute it. Treat the set as Haiti photographs with at least one misfiled picture among them.