But most food comes from imports. Before the earthquake, the Haitian government and private groups were working to improve agriculture.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.

就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。

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Now,he says,people must not permit Haiti's poorest citizens to return to the terrible conditions that existed even before the earthquake.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Even victims who were not seriously hurt in the earthquake January twelfth are in need of the most basic supplies.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Kathleen Sebelius says the United States had medical teams in Haiti well before the earthquake and will have them there well after.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization says it has delivered tools and seeds to thousands of families in the earthquake area.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

After the earthquake, President Obama asked former presidents Bill Clinton and George W.Bush to raise money for Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The Obama administration now faces the earthquake relief effort in Haiti and the threat of terrorism at home.

VOA: special.2010.01.23

Survivors and rescue workers stopped for one minute on Friday to remember the hour when the earthquake struck.

VOA: special.2011.03.19

In the United States, many people are also giving their time and energy to collect money and goods for the earthquake victims.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

"You are feeling hopeless. If I was in Haiti when that happened, when the earthquake happened, I could go and help somebody that's injured.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

A tsunami formed near the place where the earthquake began and traveled outward in all directions.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

That was exactly ten years to the day of the earthquake that destroyed it again.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The earthquake and tsunami that hit northeastern Japan in March continue to have far-reaching effects.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

The water reached the northern edge of Sumatra about twenty minutes after the earthquake.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

One event was to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

VOA: special.2010.03.19

The school was destroyed in the earthquake but all one hundred fifty students survived.

VOA: special.2010.02.05

Haiti was considered to be in crisis long before the earthquake in January.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The earthquake and tsunami damaged cooling systems at all six nuclear reactors there.

VOA: special.2011.05.24

The earthquake of December twenty-sixth took place just east of the Sunda Trench.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

Thousands more were injured or left without homes because of the earthquake.

VOA: special.2010.01.12

She says the earthquake has been personal for her as well.

VOA: special.2010.02.01

The earthquake created a tsunami that killed people in eleven countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

The earthquake displaces a large amount of water in the ocean.

VOA: special.2011.06.07

But the earthquake did not create a tsunami.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

"With more stable infrastructure, once it's rebuilt, with a more robust health system, there's an opportunity to not only deal with the immediate tragedy of the earthquake, but hopefully, some of the longer-term crises that Haitians have experienced day in and day out."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Port-au-Prince was overcrowded before the earthquake. The mass exodus from the capital presented an opportunity to relieve the strain.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

The center of the earthquake was a scant 10 kilometers beneath the surface, and just 15 kilometers from the capital.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13

The earthquake had a magnitude of seven and was felt hundreds of miles away and in the Indonesian capital,Jakarta.

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The president says that the United States has launched a swift,aggressive, and coordinated effort to help the earthquake victims.

VOA: standard.2010.01.13