JAPAN: Estimated Arrival Time of First Tsunami Waves
Posted: February 28, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Environment, NZPacific, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: 52269498, breaking, civil defence, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, emergency, experience, healthcare and medicine, Japan, latest, Medical procedure, natural disaster, pacific tsunami warning center, protection, sea, Shizuoka City, Shizuoka location, Shizuoka Prefectural Earthquake Preparedness Education Centre, Shizuoka Prefecture, tidal wave, tsunami wave activity, urgency, visit, Waist Up, wave 1 CommentTSUNAMI BULLETIN NUMBER 020
PACIFIC TSUNAMI WARNING CENTER/NOAA/NWS
ISSUED AT 0859Z 28 FEB 2010
ESTIMATED INITIAL TSUNAMI WAVE ARRIVAL TIMES AT FORECAST POINTS WITHIN THE WARNING AND WATCH AREAS ARE GIVEN BELOW. ACTUAL ARRIVAL TIMES MAY DIFFER AND THE INITIAL WAVE MAY NOT BE THE LARGEST. A TSUNAMI IS A SERIES OF WAVES AND THE TIME BETWEEN SUCCESSIVE WAVES CAN BE FIVE MINUTES TO ONE HOUR.
LOCATION FORECAST POINT COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME.
LOCATION FORECAST POINT COORDINATES ARRIVAL TIME
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JAPAN KUSHIRO 42.9N 144.3E 0435Z 28 FEB
KATSUURA 35.1N 140.3E 0453Z 28 FEB
HACHINOHE 40.5N 141.5E 0509Z 28 FEB
SHIMIZU 32.8N 133.0E 0557Z 28 FEB
OKINAWA 26.2N 127.8E 0610Z 28 FEB
Archive Photo, Japan, 2005:
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SHIZUOKA, JAPAN – MARCH 3, 2005: A Tsunami wave is screened for the visitors to experience at Shizuoka Prefectural Earthquake Preparedness Education Centre on March 3, 2005 in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The Japanese Island is based on four different tectonic plates around the Shizuoka Prefecture area, the Pacific and Eurasian plates are situated underneath creating disastrous earthquakes in this area every 100 years to 150 years. The last quake hit in 1854 making the next earthquake imminent. If the next big Tokai Earthquake comes, a 2 to 10 meter high Tsunami is expected to hit the city. Many countermeasures are taken to prevent the area where most of the population live along the sea. (Photo by Junko Kimura/Getty Images)
A Common Sight When Tsunami Warnings Are Issued
Posted: February 28, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Environment, NZPacific, South Pacific Region, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: alberta, anticipation, beach, bill, calgary, canada, charity and relief work, crowd, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, Emergency Planning, friendship, Hawaii Islands, hitting, Honolulu, horizontal, natural disaster, oahu, Pacific islands, People, possible, preparation, roof, shore, Sitting, sleeping, south, stand, supplies, tidal wave, tools, truck, usa, van, Waikiki, Waikiki Beach, Walking, watch Leave a comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=earthquake+chile&iid=8125438″ src=”f/a/e/f/Hawaii_Under_Tsunami_aa45.jpg?adImageId=10805300&imageId=8125438″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /]
HONOLULU, HAWAII: A crowd of people watch Oahu’s southern shore in anticipation of a possible tsunami along Tantalus Drive in Honolulu, Hawaii on February 27(Sunday 28th, NZ Time), 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Residents stocked up on food and emergency supplies in preparation for a potentially damaging tsunami, after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile which sent waves across the Pacific Ocean. Before evening Pacific Time the tsunami warning was canceled by the Tsunami Warning Center. In Chile so far over 100 deaths have been reported with numbers expected to rise. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images).
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Teresa Burge and Bill Bodnar of Calgary, Alberta, Canada walk along Waikiki Beach February 27, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
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Jake Fender and Jason Heun sit atop their van on Round Top Drive on February 27, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii to await the tsunami.
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Tsunami Warning Includes All Islands In Pacific Ocean
Posted: February 28, 2010 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Environment, South Pacific Region, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: 11:03, 2010, 27th, 38100, 6am, a, Affected, alerting, all pacific islands affected by tsunami warning, beach, beaches, Bestof, Binns, boats, bottom, Breaking News, charity and relief work, Chilean, clearing, coast, county, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, Emergency Planning, evacuate, evacuation, february, ground., hawaii, Hawaii Islands, higher, hit, homes, Honolulu, horizontal, hours, hundreds, islands, lifeguards, maui, meassures, natural disaster, ocean, pacific, Pacific islands, PacificCoastNews.com, People, Photograph:, planet, police, PST., raced, rear, residents, Sandbag, saturday, seen, serious, Sirens, sounding, state, supplies, the, threatening, tidal wave, tools, top.Maui, topics, Topix, triggered, tsunami, TSUNAMI WARNING, U.S, usa, Waikiki Beach, warning, waves, West, will Leave a comment[tweetmeme]Pacific Island nations are included in the 53 tsunami warning issued. Please check below:
FR. POLYNESIA / MEXICO / COOK ISLANDS / KIRIBATI / KERMADEC IS / NIUE / NEW ZEALAND / TONGA / AMERICAN SAMOA / SAMOA / JARVIS IS. / WALLIS-FUTUNA / TOKELAU / FIJI / AUSTRALIA / HAWAII / PALMYRA IS. / TUVALU / VANUATU / HOWLAND-BAKER / NEW CALEDONIA / JOHNSTON IS. / SOLOMON IS. / NAURU / MARSHALL IS. / MIDWAY IS. / KOSRAE / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / POHNPEI / WAKE IS. / CHUUK / RUSSIA / MARCUS IS. / INDONESIA / N. MARIANAS / GUAM / YAP / BELAU / JAPAN / PHILIPPINES / CHINESE TAIPEI.
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HONOLULU, HAWAII: Eli Cantu and Scott Liang make sandbags along Waikiki Beach in back of the Westin Moana Surfrider February 27, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Residents are stocking up on food and emergency supplies in preparation for a potentially damaging tsunami, after a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake hit central Chile which sent waves across the Pacific Ocean. Warning sirens have been reported to be going off near the coast and the state is under a tsunami warning but there is no evacuation planned at this time. So far over 100 deaths in Chile have been reported and that number is expected to rise. (Photo by Kent Nishimura/Getty Images).
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Shoppers line up in front of a grocery store as they wait for it to open February 27, 2010 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Honouring Samoa: A Young Survivor Pays Tribute to the Village Boy Who Helped Her
Posted: December 11, 2009 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, Environment, Honour & Tribute, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: aerial, Apia, Bestof, Breaking news tsunami, capital, coastline, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, emergency, following, horizontal, liquor, natural disaster, nz pacific community, nz pacific news, saanapu tai, samoa, samoa tsunami, scene, strength, survivor, topics, Topix, tsunami, Village, weather 2 Comments[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=samoa+tsunami&iid=6700875″ src=”e/c/0/3/Further_Quake_Hits_a0cc.jpg?adImageId=8208380&imageId=6700875″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /] Read the rest of this entry »
A Call for More Volunteer Builders and Tradespeople to Samoa; 10 More Homes Now Under Construction
Posted: December 11, 2009 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, Environment, Honour & Tribute, NZPacific, South Pacific Region | Tags: builders, capital, Community, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, following, for, habitat, habitat for humanity nz, helping, humanity, latest update samoa, natural disaster, nz, project samoa hope, rebuilding samoa, samoa, strength, tradespeople, Village, volunteers, weather 2 Comments
Village of Saleaumua, South Coast of Upolu, Samoa: Three fales now complete. Volunteer builders and tradespeople from New Zealand, organised by Habitat for Humanity NZ, work alongside local villagers and tsunami-affected families to rebuild homes. NZ & Aus Aid to the Samoan Government covers about 90 percent of the costs and Australia has stipulated that building materials and supplies, where-ever possible, be purchased locally to help stimulate the local Samoan economy. Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity NZ/David Lawson.
A call for more volunteer builders, electricians, plumbers and drainlayers to head to Samoa. You are needed to join the teams in January 2010. These are two week work periods. For more information, contact Habitat for Humanity directly by clicking here
[tweetmeme]Habitat for Humanity New Zealand sent through the following photos to pacificEyeWitness.org yesterday afternoon. He says three homes are now complete and 10 under construction. Volunteer builders and tradespeople from New Zealand have been recruited by Habitat for Humanity NZ, who are project managing the Samoa Government’s rebuilding of tsunami-destroyed homes along the South Coast of Upolu.
The Government is paying for 90 percent of the costs with Habitat for Humanity NZ still needing more donations to help fund the remainder of the work they are doing. In addition to the Government rebuilding programme, church organisations in Samoa such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are rebuilding homes as well although they have not required the help of Habitat, or Government, to do that. They are independently financing the rebuilding of their member’s homes and chapels through Latter-day Saints member voluntary contributions from around the world, from what we understand.
(L)Samoa Prime Minister Sailele Malielegaoi Tuilaepa and Caroline Bilkey, NZ High Commissioner to Samoa, at the opening of the first fales. Photo courtesy of Habitat for Humanity NZ/David Lawson.
Volunteers & Habitat for Humanity NZ
Thank you to David Lawson at Habitat for Humanity for sending these photos. Plus, a special thank you, and debt of gratitude to all New Zealanders – builders and tradespeople – and others alike (we understand a team from the Waikato Times newspaper have volunteered) who have, and will be, volunteering their time to rebuild Samoa and the Tongan island of Niuatoputapu.
All volunteers are staying in the Church Hall at the village of Lepa on the South Coast of Upolu. Local Samoans are taking care of all volunteer meals. We know that they will do everything they can, in the Samoan way, to take care of New Zealand’s builders and tradesperson, and make sure they are well fed after a long day’s work.
Fa’afetai tele lava.
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What Decisions Would You Make In A Disaster? Tsunami Lessons from 2004 Boxing Day
Posted: December 10, 2009 Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Earthquake Tsunami Samoa/AmSampa 09, education, Environment, Honour & Tribute, NZPacific, South Pacific Region, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: 2004, aleipata., AMERICAN SAMOA, american samoa tsunami, boxing day tsunami, british, british red cross, Community, cross, disaster, earthquake, horizontal, INDONESIA, natural disaster, Niuatoputapu, NZPacific, pacific tsunami, red, samoa tsunami, sri lanka, strength, thai, tonga, Village 1 Comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=thailand+tsunami&iid=2866076″ src=”a/d/1/b/Tsunami_Revisited_c014.jpg?adImageId=8163191&imageId=2866076″ width=”467″ height=”594″ /]
Boxing Day, 26 December, 2004, is a day few will forget. That’s the day the Asian Tsunami unleashed its fury for thousands of miles across 13 countries -Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Maldives- leaving 230,000 people dead and half a million injured. Millions of people’s lives were forever changed by the tragic events of that day. For those used to working in recovery and disaster relief work, the Boxing Day tsunami was a challenge like no other. It presented what seemed like impossible recovery.
For the British Red Cross, one of the main relief and recovery agencies involved post-Asian Tsunami, it was their largest recovery effort since World War II. Armed with 30,000 Red Cross volunteers, the Red Cross spent £84.9million in its recovery effort.
[tweetmeme]Five years later, it looks back at the tragedy and reviews the long road to recovery. In the process, they’ve come up with a simulated challenge that literally puts you and I in the role of a decision maker at a tsunami disaster. Based on real life situations the British Red Cross were faced with, the interactive hands-on approach means you get to vicariously experience some of the challenges those on the front line faced.
Through a new interactive challenge, Decisions for Recovery, you can walk in the shoes of those who led recovery from the disaster. Drawing from the real-life dilemmas Red Cross staff faced, Decisions for Recovery, puts you to the test as the decision maker.
When so many are suffering, who do you help first? What kind of help do you offer and how do you decide between quick fixes which meet immediate needs and frustratingly slow but sustainable long-term projects?
As a disaster recovery manager for the British Red Cross, it’s up to you to direct and co-ordinate the Tsunami response, help rebuild lives and recover a future for people who have lost everything.
Alastair Burnett, British Red Cross Disaster Recovery Manager says he feels very proud of what the Red Cross achieved to help rebuild people’s lives, and more than that, build them back stronger.
“The challenges were enormous, the decisions – as people visiting the website will see – were incredibly difficult,” said Burnett.
“We were faced with the most difficult decisions of our lives, decisions that affected hundreds of thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by the tsunami.
“The support we received from the public was phenomenal and enabled us to mount our largest recovery effort since the Second World War. Now we want to tell the story of how the money people gave was spent and the difference it has made to people’s lives.”
Check it out and play the challenge. We did and it was thought-provoking. It’s a very handy useful website for disaster preparedness information. The interactive challenge gives you an insight into the recovery decisions made, or not made, in the aftermath of the Pacific Tsunami which hit Samoa, American Samoa and the Tongan island of Niuatoputapu on Tuesday 29th September 2009.
Decisions for Recovery’can be found at www.recoveringafuture.org.uk/challenge.
Fast Facts Boxing Day 2004 Tsunami
3 kilometres that the wave travelled inland
9 number on the Richter scale of the earthquake triggering the tsunami
13 number of countries affected
20 meters high – the wave that hit Indonesia
40 the number of countries with people dead in the tsunami
500 km per hour the wave travelled at
23,000 equivalent number of Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs it would take to release as much energy
30,000 Red Cross volunteers involved in the operation
230,000 people who died
500,000 people injured
1,500,000 children wounded, displaced or lost family
4,500,000 people who received recovery assistance from the Red Cross
5,000,000 people who lost homes, or access to food and water.
Construction
Total houses built: 2,936
- Indonesia: 2,212
- Sri Lanka: 258
- Maldives: 466
Livelihoods
Total number of beneficiaries: 133,962 (calculated by average number in household)
- Indonesia: 34,068
- Sri Lanka: 91,644
- Maldives: 8,250
Number of direct beneficiaries (people who received grants)
- Indonesia: 11,356
- Sri Lanka: 22,911
- Maldives: 1,650
Honouring Samoa: A Survivor Retells the Day The Tsunami Hit The South Coast
Posted: December 10, 2009 Filed under: NZPacific | Tags: adult, aleipata., Apia, beach, Bestof, capital, Community, debris, destruction, earthquake, Emergencies And Disasters, following, horizontal, kenape, men, natural, natural disaster, pacific news, People, road, saanapu tai, salu lima, samoa, scale, shore, steph, steph faamalata, strength, time, topics, Topix, Upolu, Village, Walking, weather Leave a comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=samoa+tsunami&iid=6682304″ src=”1/7/f/4/Further_Quake_Hits_466a.jpg?adImageId=8161992&imageId=6682304″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /]
[tweetmeme] This story is written by a young Samoan woman who survived Samoa’s tsunami. Because of its length, it will be posted as a three part series. When we first heard of this young woman’s experience, we contacted her to see if she would be willing to share her story with our readers, in her own words. Her name is Steph. Here’s an excerpt from what she wrote to us in which she stresses the need to hear other people’s stories:
Other stories are more miraculous than mine but I’m thankful I have somewhere to voice what happened where others cannot, and believe me, there are other stories from that disaster that I hopefully will be told to the world. God bless. Steph
In honour of all the dead, the victims, and survivors of Samoa and Tonga’s Tsunami.
By Steph Fa’amatala
This story is dedicated to Kenape the boy who held onto me.
My mother, my son and myself all travelled to Western Samoa on the 19th September 2009. We were heading to a village in Saanapu Tai on Upolu Island, where most of my mother’s family lived.
On the Tuesday 29th September 2009, between 6:30 to 7:30 in the morning, the earthquake struck. As the earth continued to tremble, my mother, my aunties, and all the elderly ladies were trying to get us kids out of bed, and out of the house, using those held samoan- made brooms, known as salu lima.
Photo frames were falling off the walls, flower necklaces, pictures, stereo and TV, all falling off. The computer fell off its table. Our suitcases fell off the tables it was on. Chairs were falling over backwards.
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Us elder kids grabbed the little ones and tried to run out of the house. It was difficult as the ground was shaking so bad that you could not even walk straight. Everything was smashing all around us. The little ones were crying. The elders were screaming from outside to get out. The older boys were carrying the elderly up behind the houses and huts towards the hills and mountains. The little kids who were all dressed for school, were running up the hill, laughing, happy thinking, this is a game.
I grabbed my mother’s bag, and our passports, that were in our suitcases. I looked around and everyone was just standing around talking about what just happened. My mother and her sisters, were just telling us to run for the hills and to get away from the houses.
We started moving towards the hills but the majority of the villagers were still standing around wondering what happened … ( as Samoans sometimes do,) when the minister drove past in his car in a hurry and screamed that a tsunami was coming.
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Everyone was for their own self after that. We were running but it was hard to run up the hill. I was wearing se’evae kosokoso (sandals), and the grass was high, the bushes were thick, the trees and shrubs were sharp but the loud explosion was what kept us going. It was an explosion like a bomb had been set off. Then there was a noise like a rushing sound only louder. Little did we know, as we were rushing up that hill, that the sound was the waves coming towards us.
Someone pushes me upwards and forwards. I’m pushing a neighbour’s child up the hill and pulling my cousin with me. I look far up ahead and see my mother crying and looking out towards the ocean behind me. I hear children screaming. The older boys are yelling:
Faakope le kamo’e la ua sau le galu! (“Run faster the wave is coming!”), kamomo’e! (“Run”).
I turn quickly only to see the house that we slept in half an hour before look so tiny against the big waves. It was a sight that i’ll never forget for the rest of my life. I look towards the bottom of the hill. There are still people coming…I knew that they might not make it.
I prayed and I cried. I knew what was coming and that some of us might not make it. I was shocked.
I see a man hold a woman to a tree and then throws himself around her and pushes her into the tree. I see men holding onto each other and holding onto fences that were the entrance to the hill. I knew I had to run but I couldn’t stop watching.
Someone slaps me on the head and screams, Aikae Kamoe! (S***t, run!”). It was my older cousin. He had already taken the kids off me and had ran straight pass me. I don’t remember much after that, but I knew that I had just keep going.
Click here for Part 2 Kenape: Suga, aumai lou lima kago e fusi mau a’u ae o lea o le a ou kaupe i le laau...Girl, give me your hand, try and hold me tight, and I will hold onto a tree.
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Photos: US Military Swing Into Action & Aid Haiti Amid A Barrage of Critics
Posted: January 20, 2010 | Author: PacificEyeWitness.com | Filed under: Analysis, Breaking News, Business, Community, Current, Opinion & Commentary, Politics, US & Foreign Affairs | Tags: (Adrian, (Candice, (Carl, (CVN, (MRE), (R, 03000000, 03002000, 12, 12yearold, 13015001, 15, 16, 17, 18, 2010, 2nd, 70, 73, a, aboard, Affected, air, aircraft, angles, Army Soldier, Arrival, arrives, assist, assists, Barker/US, Barton/US, base, Berman, Berndt, bottled, boy, brain, brain surge, bring, Brought, campus, capital cities, carl vinson, Carolina, carrier, caused, cdm, charity and relief work, child's, Cite Soleil, citizen, citizens, class, clinic, Cmdr, CNN, coast, concrete, conducting, Correspondent, Crewman, cvn 70, deck, deliver, department, dis, disaster, distribute, Distributing, distribution, dr, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, drop, earthquake, Earthquake Relief, eat, effort, elevators, Emergencies And Disasters, evacuation, examines, facility, following, food, ford, friday, Geographical Locations, girl, Goldsboro, guard, Gupta, Haiti, Haitian, HAITIEARTHQUAKE, Harold, Hatian, hawk, head, health, helicopter, Henri, hispanic, horizontal, hospital, HTI, humanitarian, humanitarian relief, injured, injury, Jan, january, Jason, jerry, Kathryn, Killick, krt2010, krtcampus, krtcaribbean caribbean, krtdisaster disaster, krtdiversity diversity, krtedonly, krtquake earthquake quake, krtworld world, large, left, Los, LT, Lt. General Keen, magnitude, man, mct, mealreadyto, med, medical, members, military, Moore/US, moved, natural disaster, naval, navy, near, network, Neurosurgeon, news, Nimitzclass, north, nuclearpowered, Oberholtzer/US, occupation, one, operations, originally, outside, patients, pediatric, performing, performs, Photo/MCT), piece, points, Port-au-Prince, PortauPrince, practicing, prepare, quake, receive, receives, Recent, relief, removed, reporter, rescue, response, right, sailors, Sanjay, saturday, sea, Seahawk, security, services, severe, SH60B, SH60F, ship, ship's, staff, States', supplies, support, surgeon, SurgeoninChief, surgeons, surgery, tools, transfer, Transfers, treat, treatment, united, UPI//US, UPI/Daniel, UPI/Erin, UPI/Laura, UPI/Michael, us, us military, USS, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), victim, victims, Villarreal/US, Vinson, wait, Walking, water, White/US, wing, woman women, workers, young, youth | Leave a comment[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=us+navy+haiti&iid=7586598″ src=”e/2/4/1/Haiti_Struggles_With_4dc5.jpg?adImageId=9302843&imageId=7586598″ width=”500″ height=”333″ /]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Soldiers from the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division walk to a Navy helicopter to be dropped off to secure an area to drop in food and water supplies near the Cite Soleil area, as relief contiues to arrive after the massive earthquake January 18, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
[tweetmeme]Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake that may have killed thousands. Many buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images).
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI – JANUARY 18: A U.S. Army soldier carries an injured child from a helicopter as she is brought in for care after being hurt during the massive earthquake.
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Haitian-US citizens earthquake survivors waiting at the airport to leave Port-au-Prince return to USA, on January 17, 2010. The airport congestion also touched off diplomatic rows between the US military and other donor nations. France and Brazil both lodged official complaints that the US military, in control of the international airport, had denied landing permission to relief flights from their countries. Photo by Tolga Adanali/AA/ABACAPRESS.COM
Editor’s Note: Over recent days, there has been reported criticism from within Haiti, and formal complaints laid by France and Brazil, and its aid agencies, that the US soldiers were “occupying” Haiti, and not prioritising medical workers. Clearly, the US Military are providing medical aid, and other relief, on a scale we have never before witnessed. After the challenges with airport congestion in Haiti, and aid reportedly not reaching people in need, someone needed to step in, take control and ensure there was an orderly process in order at Haiti Airport. The Haitian Government, under the circumstances, were incapable of doing that. Good on the US Military for stepping in, and stepping on diplomatic and aid agency toes, to ensure aid reached people in need. Haitians were crying out for help. Now the US military are in Haiti, they’re now facing criticism for doing a job they were called on to do as part of the international effort. In case governments and aid agencies need reminding, the US military are responding , along with Mexico, France, Brazil, Israel and others, to a catastrophic crisis of devastating proportions. Give them a break .
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Patients affected by the recent earthquake wait outside the Killick Haitian Coast Guard base clinic to receive treatment from U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard medical workers, January 16, 2010. (Candice Villarreal/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
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Medical staff from the U.S. Navy, left, and U.S. Coast Guard, right, treat earthquake victims at the Killick Haitian Coast Guard base clinic in Haiti, January 16, 2010. (Candice Villarreal/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
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Naval Air Crewman 2nd Class Jason Harold of Goldsboro, North Carolina, transfers a young Haitian earthquake victim from an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter during a medical evacuation in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday, January 16, 2010. (Candice Villarreal/US Navy News Photo/MCT).
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Dr. Sanjay Gupta examines an injured Haitian girl in the medical facility aboard the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 18, 2010. Gupta, a practicing neurosurgeon and reporter for the CNN news network, was brought to the ship to assist in performing brain surgery on a 12-year-old Hatian girl. UPI/Erin Oberholtzer/U.S. Navy.
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Cmdr. Jerry Berman, left, a Navy surgeon, Dr. Henri R. Ford, Los Angles Pediatric Hospital Surgeon-in-Chief originally from Haiti, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, a CNN medical correspondent and practicing neurosurgeon, and Lt. Cmdr. Kathryn Berndt, a Navy surgeon, prepare a 12-year-old Haitian girl with a severe head injury for surgery aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on January 18, 2010. Surgeons removed a piece of concrete from the child’s brain caused by the earthquake in Haiti. UPI/Michael Barton/U.S. Navy.
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U.S. military members distribute food and water to Haitian citizens in Port-Au-Prince on January 17(UPI/US Navy)
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A Haitian boy receives his meal-ready-to eat (MRE) and bottled water from U.S. military members that are distributing food and water at one of the distribution points in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on January 17(UPI/Laura A. Moore/US Navy)
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A SH-60F Sea Hawk helicopter arrives to deliver water and supplies on January 15, 2010 to Port-au-Prince (UPI/Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy).
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Sailors from the United States Navy deliver an injured U.S. citizen to USS Carl Vinson on Friday, January 15, 2010. Health Services department moved the man to one of the deck elevators for transfer to the ship’s medical facility. Carl Vinson and Carrier Air Wing 17 are conducting humanitarian and disaster relief operations in Haiti in response to the January 12, 2010, earthquake disaster. (Adrian White/US Navy News Photo/MCT)
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U.S. Army soldiers unload food and supplies on January 15, 2010 from a U.S. Navy MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopter from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) at the airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.(UPI/Candice B. Villarreal/U.S. Navy).