Possibly you were also sitting at your evening meal on Tuesday Jan 12, 2010, watching TV when suddenly they broke programming with a News Flash.What is it this time, you wondered.
And then you heard and saw the news of a 7.0 earthquake!
The earthquake hit about 5 pm EST with the center located only about 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010.
It is said to be the worse earthquake there in 200 years.
Complete devastation is being reported, the TV announcer said. A hospital is said to have collapsed. Buildings are destroyed. Thousands may be dead!
Oh, No.
To read more details, HERE’S A LINK and HERE’S ANOTHER LINK.
The US Gov. also has a website which keeps track of earthquakes around the world. You may have frequented this page before. But, if not, you need to know about it. It is, of course, reporting this earthquake. HERE’S THE LINK
