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04-22-2010, 06:06 PM
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Piles of Bodies After the January 12, 2010 Haiti Earthquake
In the days following Haiti's January 12, 2010 earthquake, bodies were recovered and left in open-air piles. The magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred about 25 kilometres southwest of Port-au-Prince, close to Leogane, at a depth of around 13 kilometres. Death estimates differ widely by calculation method, ranging from roughly 100,000 to over 300,000, and no total has ever been agreed. Most files use the naming formats of news agencies and newspaper picture systems and contain timestamps from January 14 and January 16, 2010, indicating they were taken by the press during the response's first days rather than originating there. Two people independently identified the final item as originating from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, not Haiti, and this was not disputed. The material should therefore be regarded as Haiti documentation containing at least one wrongly filed item. |