Marcelin Rose Danie and her family lived in the center of Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck.
Humanitarian agencies were working with rescue crews to reach people affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
The earthquake in Gujarat in India in 2001, which was of similar magnitude, killed some 20, 000.
Aggreko agreed to supply power to areas of Japan worst hit by the earthquake and tsunami.
Experts are also debating the cause of the earthquake, notes Taipei's Central News Agency.
The earthquake killed approximately 38, 000 schoolchildren and students, as well as 1, 300 teachers and educational staff.
The areas are sparsely populated, and the earthquake was 62 miles beneath the Earth's surface.
An eyewitness told ABC News that many people sought higher ground after the earthquake struck.
There is no shortage caused by the earthquake in China that's taken thousands of lives.
The earthquake was centered on a small town called Saravan, according to Tehran University's Geological Center.
This seaside town is just over an hour's drive from the epicenter of the earthquake.
But the capital is like heaven compared to the area hit by the earthquake and tsunami.
So the earthquake that hits is a 9.0 and the tsumani is 7 meters high.
Since the earthquake, I've exchanged e-mails or phone calls with all of these eight young adults.
Japanese meteorological authorities said a small tsunami wave of two feet could result from the earthquake.
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The Americans have said they were just trying to help the children leave the earthquake-stricken country.
But Pinera said recently that responding to the earthquake requires the country to transcend partisan differences.
ILF, in partnership with the Adventure Project, scaled the project to Haiti after the earthquake hit.
Lawmakers also joined Iranians in expressing their astonishment at state media's thin coverage of the earthquake.
The damages caused in Haiti by the earthquake of January 12, 2010 are unimaginable.
However, even before the earthquake, Dominion stressed it had no immediate plans to actually build.
One man said he felt the road start to buckle when the earthquake began.
The earthquake struck in the middle of the day, around 2:28 p.m. local time.
The power plant was badly damaged by the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March.
Camilo Barrios, a Mexican on vacation, had not spoken to his family since the earthquake.
After the earthquake, their relatives sent them to boarding school in Beijing, funded by donations.
As cruelly inevitable as the earthquake was unforeseeable, winter may be an even bigger disaster.
On the side of the school building sheared away by the earthquake is a green blackboard.
His father, Liu Sheng Lu, rushed to the school right after the earthquake and started digging.
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