Seven days past the aftershock

So far the situation in Haiti centres around bringing aid to the good people of the capital, Port-au-Prince. I am no expert in matters of earth plates, and physics, and as you may know, have no way of knowing what happened there except through brainy scientists having studied the Earth’s movements and crusts. One question that runs through my mind day after day since this horrendous event occurred concerns the area where the earthquake hit. According to many laboratory instruments that will tell us the magnitude of the quake, we are told that the  epicentre was located southwest of the capital. If the Earth trembled there at more than 7.0 on the Richter scale that counts as maximum a 7.5 level, would it not be rational to assume that other communities outside of Port-au-Prince had been affected as well? I am surprised at this date to hear skimpy reports of entire villages having been decimated outside of the capital such as places located south of the Island. No reports have come from the western part of the Dominican Republic either. I am AGHAST at the inefficiency of the United States’ ability to bring adequate medicine, food and water to Haiti. Could these have been dropped from the sky days ago? I understand that disease and malnutrition are major concerns now.

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