Yesterday at 1653 local time (2153 GMT) an earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck about 15 kilometers southwest of the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.

BBC: Mike Blanpied of the US Geological Survey said that, based on the location and size of the "shallow" quake, about three million people would have been severely shaken by its impact.

MSF: MSF’s Trinite trauma center hospital, a 60-bed structure and one of the only free-of-charge surgical facilities in Port-au-Prince, was seriously damaged by the quake. At the moment, MSF teams are trying to ensure the safety and continued care of patients admitted to Trinite hospital and to establish a capacity to respond to new patients.

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BBC: Thousands of Haitians are spending a second night in the open after the country's catastrophic earthquake which may have killed tens of thousands. Medical aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres reported a "massive influx" of casualties at its makeshift clinics, many of them with severe injuries.

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BBC: The US says it will temporarily allow orphaned Haitian children into the US, following last week's earthquake. Other nations said they were speeding up the process to allow Haitian children to join adoptive families. Dutch adoption agencies sent a plane to pick up some 100 Haitian children who are being adopted by Dutch families.

MSF: MSF teams are stretching their existing, limited operating theatres to the limit by working around the clock, while also trying to create more capacity by finding new premises and transporting in mobile structures. Teams have also been to areas outside of the city and have found very substantial damage and numbers of injured people. In Jacmel, on the southern coast very near to the epicentre of the earthquake, around 60 percent of the buildings were destroyed. The hospital had partially collapsed but the operating theatre is still usable.

DEC: Oxfam have installed four water tanks capable of holding 10,000 litres of water each. A plane will depart East Midlands airport today with 30 tonnes of water and sanitation equipment and plastic sheeting for temporary shelter. CARE are giving out over eight days supply of water purification tablets in Port au Prince. Merlin's medical team arrived on Sunday and will soon be joined by a surgical team. Help Age International have a mobile medical unit in Haiti.

25/01/2010