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Hi-res images from Los Angeles Times photographers Carolyn Cole, Rick Loomis and Brian Vander Brug.


FROM ABOVE: An aerial view provides greater perspective on damage wrought to downtown Port-au-Prince in the 7.0 earthquake one week ago today.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

TENT CITY: Tent camps are set up in dirt fields all over the city of Port-au-Prince for those who have lost their homes and others too afraid to sleep inside.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

DEPARTING: A U.S. citizen is helped aboard a flight leaving the country.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

BURNING: Fires burn in downtown Port-au-Prince, where most of the buildings have been destroyed.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

WAITING: Nearly a week after the quake struck, Seraphine Joseph is still waiting to be cared for at a clinic in the town of Leogane.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

FOOD: Rebecca Brutus, 4, hangs on tight to a package of food her family received in Leogane.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

MAKING DO: Nearly a week after the quake struck Haiti, the people of Leogane are making do for themselves. Angelo Meyanse, 13, collects bricks from a church that was destroyed. The bricks will be used by his family to make a new home.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

INJURED: Patients at a clinic in Leogane, a sugarcane-producing area outside Port-au-Prince.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

DESTROYED: Nearly all of the buildings in downtown Port-au-Prince were destroyed. Burning ruins send smoke over the city.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

DAMAGED HOME: In Leogane, nearly every home has been damaged.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

WATER: People wait to fill water containers with a hose on a Port-au-Prince street.
(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

RUBBLE: A woman sorts belongings atop the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince, the capital.
(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

SALVAGE: Young women balance a mattress in the capital.
(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

DIVERSION: Men play dominoes in the street in front of the French Embassy in Port-au-Princei. Some residents are beginning the attempt to resume their lives after last week’s 7.0 earthquake.
(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

BOY: A young boy carries a table on John Brown Street in Port-au-Prince.
(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

MURAL: Cracks have damaged a mural on the facade of a hair salon in the capital, Port-au-Prince.
(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

PRAYING: On the first Sunday after the 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti, an elderly woman prays in front of the National Cathedral in Port-au-Prince.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

WAITING FOR WATER: Five-year-old Jean Delimat await a chance to fill his jug from a broken water pipe as others try to bathe in the water.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

CHAOS: Looters continue to steal over the body of a man who has just been shot and killed by police in central Port-au-Prince.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

CHAOTIC CONDITIONS: On the first Sunday after the quake, at 9:00am in the morning, the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince are filled with people scavenging. Onlookers add to the crowd.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

SCAVENGING: A crowd swarms a building in downtown Port-au-Prince, where the number of people scavenging continues to rise.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

GOODS FROM STORE: A looter makes off with rolls of fabric from an earthquake-wrecked store in downtown Port-au-Prince.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

PYRE: A man feeds a fire he set to burn a corpse in downtown Port-au-Prince four days after the earthquake. Residents have started to take action on their own because bodies haven’t been picked up and the stench is overwhelming. The deceased was a street vendor who was killed when a cement block fell on her, according to those who were around her.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

AT A LOSS: Filiane Lander, 39, right, and Suzette Benjamin, 50, cover their noses as they watch the body of one of their friends being burned where she was killed by falling debris. “I was sitting right there,” Lander said, “when it happened. We don’t know what to do now. No one has told us. Not only do we not have money to buy food to sell, but we don’t even have a place to sit.” Many women like them sit on the sidewalks selling goods. Debris had fallen from the building above, killing their friend. Locals set the corpse on fire to try to eliminate the stench, which had become too strong after four days during which no city workers had come to pick up the body.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

HOMELESS: A man holds his sleeping son during another night in a park in Port-au-Prince. Thousands of people are afraid to sleep in their homes, and many have no homes to go to.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

PATROL: An armed security guard patrols in downtown Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, to prevent looting in the area where several bank buildings collapsed.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

DAMAGED: A section of downtown Port-au-Prince is among the areas that were heavily damaged.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

ACCIDENTAL: The body of a police officer lies in a Port-au-Prince street. He was accidentally shot by fellow officers who mistook him for a looter.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

LOOTING: Looting continued in Haiti on the third day after the earthquake, although there were more police in downtown Port-au-Prince.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

DESTROYED: The Port-au-Prince Cathedral was destroyed in the earthquake.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

LOOTERS: A man taking part in the looting of a downtown Port-au-Prince store wears an Obama T-shirt. On the third day after the earthquake some of the police force has started to appear in the streets.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

ARRESTED: A Haitian police officer ties up a suspected looter who was carrying a bag of evaporated milk.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Tim

RESCUE: A Belgian rescue team pulls 52-year-old Marise Pierre Louis from the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince where she trapped for three days. International aid has started to arrive three days after the earthquake hit Haiti.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

RELIEF: Dan Woolley, of Compassion International, is rescued from the Hotel Montana, where he spent 65 hours pinned under rubble. Touching his face is Mondesir Luckson, a bellboy who was also trapped in the ruins and with whom he was able to communicate.
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

STREET SCENE: Haitians argue over goods looted from a store in downtown Port-au-Prince. The woman holds in her top the share she claims.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

MORGUE: Lionel Michaud mourns the death of his wife, Lormeny Nathalie, and son Christian Michaud, who lie in the courtyard outside a morgue in Port-au-Prince where hundreds of bodies have been brought.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

MEDICAL ATTENTION: Windhantz Bazim, 8, who suffered a broken leg and other injuries when his house collapsed on him, is carried into a Doctors Without Borders clinic in Port-au-Prince.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

GRIM TASK: Men carry a dead relative in a coffin down the street as transportation for many is difficult and gasoline is nearly gone.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

VICTIM: The body of a young girl lays on the side of the road two days after the massive earthquake that destroyed the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

HOPE FOR HAITI: A medic from Hope for Haiti cleans the wounds of an injured girl outside the La Villa Creole hotel in the Port-au-Prince suburb of Petionville.
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

MEDICAL ATTENTION: Quake victims receive aid at a makeshift hospital in Port-au-Prince.
(Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)

PITCHING IN: A woman tries to rescue someone whose voice she heard from benaeath the Department of Justice building, one of many shattered government centers.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

ALIVE: A teacher who was injured when his school collapsed is helped by a stranger outside a hospital.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

FATALITIES: Bodies lie wrapped in sheets in Port-au-Prince, a familiar site in the Haitian capital a day after the earthquake.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)
via: LA Times
2 Responses to Earthquake in Haiti Hi-res images 16+
vacano
January 22nd, 2010 at 1:01 pm
Me too my friend..
Cyril Smith
April 21st, 2010 at 3:47 pm
some of my friends who work in haiti were also victimized by that terrible earthquake., i was very thankful that they only suffered minor scratches.