UNICEF estimates that more than 20,000 children lost their parents in the Jan. 12 quake and its aftermath.
Relatives or neighbors are caring for many of these children. Others, such as a group of boys in a Port-au-Prince park, are fending for themselves.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124464928
The devastating earthquakes in Chile and Haiti this year have North American seismologists looking again at the potential for similar quakes here at home.
After all, the U.S. lies on several major fault lines, and has suffered strong earthquakes throughout its history.
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http://www.theweek.com/article/index/106947/Quake_watch_is_America_next
Friday marks one month since the January 12 earthquake shattered Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, killing 212,000 people.
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http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/haiti-one-month-after-quake-18110834
The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following a devastating earthquake last month.
A man was pulled from rubble in Haiti's capital on Tuesday, two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled much of the city, officials said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/26/haiti.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T1
With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.us.coast.guard/index.html
