A 6.0 magnitude earthquake had struck Northern California at about 12:20 p.m. on Thursday, at a depth of seven miles and distance of 35 miles west-northwest of Petrolia, the United States Geological Survey said.
A strong aftershock hit the already-crippled area of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, barely just a week after a killer earthquake ravaged the area, destroying many structures, and either killing or gravely injuring many of its residents.
An earthquake, which registered at magnitude 5.6 on the Richter’s scale, hit Venezuela at 18:00 GMT on Friday.
The Google Earth team, in cooperation with their partner, GeoEye, has released an update for the Google Earth application showing the devastation that the recent 7.0-magnitude earthquake unleashed in Haiti last Wednesday.
Joining the likes of Hollywood celebrities Oprah Winfrey, Ben Stiller and Paris Hilton, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have both stepped up to aid the recovery efforts in Haiti – with a million-dollar pledge.
Televangelist Rev. Pat Robertson said on Wednesday that the earthquake in Haiti was connected to a “pact made with the devil” by the Haitian people in the 19th century.
A large number of groups have also put together disaster recovery response groups to help aid in the calamity. While they’re definitely giving their all, here’s what you can do behind the scenes to help the various groups performing recovery operations in the area.
The United Nations reports that their headquarters in the impoverished nation of Haiti has collapsed after the area was hit with a destructive earthquake – one that was even stronger than the California earthquake just days ago.
A powerful magnitude 7 quake hit the Caribbean region at around four in the afternoon (local time), with Haiti receiving its strongest impact.
Twitter has been abuzz again today with pseudo-news coverages of the calamity that struck California Saturday. Local news platoons are either resting for the weekend, or have been crippled by the earthquake themselves, so most people turned to Twitter for updates. Here are some of the pictures that have been flying around.
