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Earthquake rocks Haiti

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Los Angeles County and fire search and rescue work on extracting 3 women who survived being buried under a building in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Friday, Jan. 15.

— Ron Haviv
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Suspected looters are being held by police in downtown Port-au-Prince.

— Ron Haviv
Image: Army soldiers help the crew of a U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson unload food and supplies at the airport in Port-au-Prince

Army soldiers help the crew of a U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson unload food and supplies at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Friday, January 15. The U.S. military is conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations aftermath of a 7.0 magnitude earthquake on January 12.

— Ho / X80001
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People collect water from a broken water line caused by the massive earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

— Joe Raedle / Getty Images South America
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People crowd a boat in waters off in Port-au-Prince.

— Gregory Bull / AP
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Haitian looters fight for food in a street of Port-au-Prince. US military leaders said, they would pour 10,000 troops in earthquake-battered Haiti in the coming days, warning that it was urgent to bring water and food to prevent deaths and unrest.

— Olivier Laban Mattei / AFP
Image: A man points a gun to the crowd in downtown Port-au-Prince

A man points a gun to the crowd in downtown Port-au-Prince. The man fired warning shots into the air to prevent looters from ransacking his shop.

— Kena Betancur / X02550
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Leoni, 29-yrs old student, gets her first drink of water in over 70 hours after being carried from he rubble of University of Port au Prince after being dug out by the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team.

— Paul J. Richards / AFP
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Bodies of earthquake victims lie outside the morgue in Port-au-Prince.

— Gregory Bull / AP
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A man sets up a shelter in the commune of Cite Soleil after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

— Handout / Getty Images South America
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Student Billy Clerge receives medical attention after 69.5 hours under the rubble of University of Port au Prince after being dug out by the Fairfax County Urban Search & Rescue Team, part of USAID. Victims are still being found alived after the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Port Au Pince, Haiti.

— Paul J. Richards / AFP
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A Haitian man turns away from the sight of hundreds of bodies piled up outside the morgue and main hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

— Chris Hondros / Getty Images South America
Image: A woman drinks water in a shelter three days after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince

A woman is given water at a shelter in Port-au-Prince on Friday, Jan. 15, three days after a 7.0 earthquake ravaged Haiti's capital city and surrounding areas. Haitians were getting desperate for food, water and medical assistance as the world raced to bring aid.

— Kena Betancur / X02550
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People try to break through a wall after hearing children cry for help from under the rubble of what is left of the St. Gerard School in Port-au-Prince. Many children had already been found dead in the rubble.

— Joe Raedle / Getty Images North America
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A man tries to quiet a crowd so rescuers can listen to the children begging for help from under the rubble of what is left of the St. Gerard School.

— Joe Raedle / Getty Images North America
Image: A man lays on his hospital bed after the earthquake in Haiti

An injured man waits for care at the main hospital in Port-au-Prince. Planeloads of rescuers and care workers headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation.

— Joe Raedle / Getty Images South America
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Belgian emergency workers are seen during efforts to free Rosemene Josiane, 28, who had been trapped in the rubble of her house since the quake struck. In the end, the emergency workers had to anesthetize her and amputate one leg to free her.

— Chris Hondros / Getty Images South America
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French military rescuers work to secure part of the collapsed Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince. Several Americans were pulled alive from the rubble.

— Francois Mori / AP
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People look for survivors in the wreckage of the collapsed Catherine Flon school in Carrefour, on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince.

— Ariana Cubillos / AP
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Haitians pass in front of the multistory St. Gerard School; dozens were feared to have been killed or trapped under the rubble.

— Chris Hondros / Getty Images South America
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People walk in front of a coffin on a street in Port-au-Prince. The Red Cross estimates 45,000 to 50,000 people were killed in the cataclysmic earthquake.

— Ramon Espinosa / AP
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An injured girl in Port-au-Prince.

— Ramon Espinosa / AP
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Haitians carry potable water supplied by a tanker in Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of thousands of people have been left homeless in the devastation.

— Juan Barreto / AFP
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Scavengers look for goods amid the rubble of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince.

— Ramon Espinosa / AP
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Police officers detain alleged looters in Port-au-Prince.

— Ramon Espinosa / AP
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A girl waits for medical attention in front of a damage hospital in Carrefour, outside Port-au-Prince.

— Ariana Cubillos / AP
Image: Boy is carried away in a stretcher at a makeshift hospital in the streets of Port-au-Prince

A boy is carried away in a stretcher at a makeshift hospital in the streets of Port-au-Prince.

— Jorge Silva / X90026
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