martedì 19 gennaio 2010

HAITI EARTHQUAKE: PHOTOS

A powerful earthquake rocked Haiti on January 12, damaging not only buildings and roads but the foundation of the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation, which has struggled under decades of coups, corruption and natural disasters. Photographers have turned their lenses to the devastation.

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Tents and other temporary shelters cover a stadium surface in Loagan, Haiti, on Sunday, January 17.

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Young earthquake victims sleep without shelter Monday morning, January 18, in Port-au-Prince.

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Rubble and debris from destroyed buildings cover a hillside Monday in Port-au-Prince.

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A policeman tries Monday to keep residents from a section of downtown Port-au-Prince where a supermarket collapsed.

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Residents searching for food climb over the remains of a supermarket Monday in Port-au-Prince.

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Garbage piles up Monday outside a makeshift camp for displaced residents in Port-au-Prince.

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Men prepare ground for makeshift shelters Monday in Port-au-Prince.

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Trash litters the lawn of the damaged National Palace in Port-au-Prince six days after the earthquake.

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A casket is held to the roof of a car by passengers in Port-au-Prince on Sunday.

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A fire breaks out in the rubble of a destroyed building.

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A car sits beneath a pile of rubble in Port-au-Prince on Sunday.

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People walk the rubble-filled streets of Port-au-Prince on Sunday.

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People salvage what they can from the rubble.

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A security officer yells at people trying to salvage what they can from the remains of a building.

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A man guards of the remains of a building in Port-au-Prince on Sunday.

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People gather to pray outside the wreckage of the main cathedral in Port-au-Prince.

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A woman prays to a statue of Jesus outside the cathedral on Sunday morning.

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Women carry food and other goods through the rubble Sunday morning.

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Irish and Spanish rescue teams search for bodies Saturday in Port-au-Prince.

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Haitian man waves to a Navy helicopter carrying water on Saturday, January 16, in Port-au-Prince.

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Haitian worshipers pray Sunday morning outside the destroyed cathedral of Port-au-Prince.

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Israeli rescuers search a collapsed building Saturday in Port-au-Prince.

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An Israeli team rescues a man from a collapsed building Saturday in Port-au-Prince.

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Earthquake victims await treatment Saturday at a Doctors Without Borders facility in Port-au-Prince.

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An injured man lies on a row of seats Saturday outside the general hospital in Port-au-Prince.

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Haitians board and climb onto buses leaving Port-au-Prince on Saturday.

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U.N. forces help distribute food to displaced Haitians on Friday, January 15.

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Bodies are dumped into mass graves Friday, January 15, in Titanyen, Haiti.

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A man cries outside a makeshift hospital Friday, January 15, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Helicopters fly over the heavily damaged Port-au-Prince Cathedral on Friday, January 15.

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A man carries an elderly woman who needs medical attention Friday, January 15, in downtown Port-au-Prince.

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Hundreds of bodies pile up outside the main morgue of Port-au-Prince's general hospital on Friday, January 15.

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An injured Haitian is carried on a stretcher Thursday, January 14, in Port-au-Prince.

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A destroyed building leans over a street Thursday, January 14, in Port-au-Prince.

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A young boy with a lacerated brow stares into a camera lens two days after a magnitude-7 temblor struck western Haiti on January 12, 2010, devastating the capital of Port-au-Prince.

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A group of Haitian rescue workers looks on as a survivor is pulled from the rubble more than 50 hours after the January 12 quake.

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Two men carry a child with a splinted leg on a makeshift stretcher in Port-au-Prince on January 14, two days after the magnitude-7 earthquake struck near the city.

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A woman cries in the particularly hard-hit Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Fort National as bodies are laid on the street. Tens of thousands are feared dead, many of them trapped in the ruins of buildings.

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The streets of Port-au-Prince are littered with the bodies of victims of the January 12 earthquake and choked by tons of debris.

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Even the most basic first aid is difficult to find, and there are fears that a second disaster is looming: disease, brought on by unsanitary conditions, and death from untreated injuries.

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A body is trapped in the rubble of a collapsed building. Untold numbers of victims are believed to be under tons of concrete, and the lack of heavy equipment and trained rescuers means very few left alive are likely to be rescued.

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Young boys get basic first aid outside the Villa Creole hotel, where electricity was still available Friday. Most of the city of Port-au-Prince is without power or other utilities.

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