2010 Haiti Quake Will Bring Back 2008 School Collapse Memories and Highlight Hatian Chidren's Plight

The memories of the 2008 Haitian school collapse are flooding our mind. That incident reminds us that many lives were lost due to the lack of equipment and wrong building codes. This earthquake will have caused far more damages. Haiti does not really have a good emergency force. Yes, the peace-keeping troups are still in Haiti. With the destruction of roads and their own equipment, there is not much they can do.

Haitians used their bare hands to rescue their kids and neighbors.









Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been struggling to recover from widespread riots over rising food prices, a string of hurricanes and tropical storms that killed nearly 800 people.

Thousands of Haitian menial laborers live in collapse-prone hillside slums around the capital, Port-au-Prince, to be near the mansions of the foreign diplomats, U.N. staff and wealthy elite for whom they work.

Parents said they toiled endlessly throughout the year to afford the school's $1,500 tuition in hopes of empowering their children to someday escape poverty.

Massive Haitian Earthquake Pictures and Videos: 7.0 Magnitude Quake in the Tropics

A 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti this afternoon. An earthquake hits the tropics. There is a fault that runs right through the Dominican Republic and Haiti. That is why the earthquake happens. Yes, for the first time, there is an earthquake in the tropics. Will there be an earthquake in Miami?

According to a World Vision International worker, there is a lot of wailing going on and coming out of the shantytowns such as Cite Soleil. All the houses are flattened and crumbled. Even the best buildings, the new modern constructions suffer major damages. According to family members, many family homes, schools and hospitals crumbled.

Back in 1984, there was a 6.84 earthquake in Haiti according to some sources. So this one may not be the first one that hits the country.