Haiti earthquake; rescue efforts continue (43 images)

 

On Jan. 12, a magnitude-7 earthquake devastated Haiti, the Western Hemisphere's poorest nation. The international Red Cross estimates that 45,000 to 50,000 were killed. The relief agency says 3 million people - a third of the population - may need emergency relief. "This is much worse than a hurricane," said Jimitre Coquillon, a doctor's assistant working at a triage center set up in a hotel parking lot. "There's no water. There's nothing. Thirsty people are going to die." On Friday, fears spread of unrest among the Haitian people in their fourth day of desperation. Read the latest news about the disaster.

Earthquake survivors gather in a makeshift camp they set up on basketball courts in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday leaving thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo)

Belgian emergency workers look ask for extra gear as they work together to free a Haitian woman who had been trapped in the rubble of her house for days in Port au Prince, Haiti. A group of B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team) members worked most of the day to free the woman, who had her legs pinned under concrete; in the end, the emergency workers had to anesthetize her and amputate one leg to free her. Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake that struck and devastated the nation on January 12. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A photograph of earthquake victim Leslie Polynice lays in the rubble of a home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday leaving thousands dead and many displaced. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

 

Bodies lie in an open coffin abandoned on the side of a garbage dump in Port-au-Prince. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday killing and displacing thousands of people. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

French military rescuers react after the death of a survivor they were trying to rescue from the rubble of the Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince. The hotel collapsed during the powerful earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Francois Mori)

An injured girl looks on in Port-au-Prince. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

 

 

Elliane Garcon, right, cries as she watches the body of her husband, Rene Morancy, being dumped from a front loader into a truck as crews remove bodies from the streets in the aftermath of Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

People ride with a coffin on top of a car as they arrive at the morgue in the aftermath of Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

 

Workers load humanitarian aid for Haiti at the airport of Prat de Llobregat, Spain. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake, the largest ever recorded in the area, rocked Haiti on Tuesday. With rescuers and relief goods starting to pour into Haiti from around the world, aid groups warn of the challenge of getting through to those in need as the capital's airport strains handle incoming flights, the main shipping port remains closed due to underwater debris, and the roads are clogged with the homeless and hungry. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

A displaced man washes his face after sleeping in the street in Port-au-Prince. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Staff Sgt. Brian Cunning with the 18th Airborne Corps loads rounds into a magazine as he gets ready to board a supply plane bound for Haiti at Pope Air Force Base, near Fayetteville, N.C. Hundreds of U.S. troops touched down in shattered Port-au-Prince overnight as U.N. and other aid organizations struggled Friday to get food and water to stricken millions. Fears spread of unrest among the Haitian people in their fourth day of desperation. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)

Victims lie in a makeshift outdoor clinic after the town's hospital was seriously damaged by Tuesday's earthquake in Jacmel, Haiti. Most of the concentration for relief is in the nations capital, leaving Jacmel low on water, medication, and shelter. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)

A girl washes her face after spending the night on the street in Port-au-Prince. Many residents of the city are camping out after the powerful earthquake that struck Haiti onTuesday destroyed thousands of homes. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

A girl washes her face after spending the night on the street in Port-au-Prince. Many residents of the city are camping out after the powerful earthquake that struck Haiti onTuesday destroyed thousands of homes. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Belgian emergency workers closes his eyes for a moment as he labors to free Rosemene Josiane, 28, who had been trapped in the rubble of her house for days after the earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti. A group of B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team) members worked most of the day to free the woman, who had her legs pinned under concrete; in the end, the emergency workers had to anesthetize her and amputate one leg to free her. Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake that struck and devastated the nation on January 12. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Hands from bodies pile up outside the morgue and main hospital for in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake that struck and devastated the city on January 12. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Mexican search and rescue teams support relief efforts days after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake that struck and devastated the nation on January 12. (Photo by Ralph Dupoux/Getty Im ages)

Belgian emergency workers labor to free Rosemene Josiane, 28, who had been trapped in the rubble of her house for days after the earthquake in Port au Prince, Haiti. A group of B-FAST (Belgian First Aid and Support Team) members worked most of the day to free the woman, who had her legs pinned under concrete; in the end, the emergency workers had to anesthetize her and amputate one leg to free her. Haiti is trying to recover from a powerful 7.0-strong earthquake that struck and devastated the nation on January 12. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

In this handout image provided by the United Nations, A UN peacekeeper walks back to his base through the smoke of a brush fire in the commune of Cite Soleil after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Rescuers and relief supplies have headed to Haiti as governments and aid agencies launched a massive relief operation after a powerful earthquake killed possibly thousands. Numerous buildings were reduced to rubble by the 7.0-strong quake on January 12. (Photo by Logan Abassi/MINUSTAH via Getty Images)

People wave towards a helicopter in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

A Brazilian U.N. peacekeeper stands next to a man who was shot dead by suspected robbers, according to Haitian police, in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Scavengers look for goods amid the rubble of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

People fight over goods scavenged from the rubble in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Scavengers look for goods amid the rubble of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

People, carrying scavenged goods, run away from the police in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

People fight over goods scavenged from the rubble of buildings collapsed during Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

Haitians pass in front of the multi-story St. Gerard School that collapsed, leaving what is feared to be dozens trapped or killed under the rubble on January 15, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Parcels of medicine boxes and humanitarian aid are seen inside a plane and on the tarmac of Merignac airport, near Bordeaux, southwestern France, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. French NGO Doctors Without Borders chartered the plane to send aid to earthquake hit Haiti later Thursday. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Haitians hold buckets out for water distributed from a fire truck on January 15, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

A man points to the hundreds of bodies piled up outside the morgue and main hospital on January 15, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

Search and rescue workers look for the survivors trapped under the rubble of what is left of the Hotel Montana more than 50 hours after the massive earthquake destroyed the hotel January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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)

People killed by a massive earthquake lie piled outside the morgue January 14, 2010 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. 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)

Sarla Chand, of New Jersey, is carried by French firefighters after being rescued from the rubble of the collapsed Montana Hotel in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

The feet of an earthquake victim, with her toes tied up in the traditional Haitian custom, lies at the morgue in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

 

Former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide weeps during a press conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. Exiled former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said Friday he was ready to return to his quake-devastated country, but it was not clear when or how. (AP Photo)

 

A body is buried in the rubble of a hotel in the aftermath of an earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Friday, Jan. 15, 2010. A powerful earthquake hit Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Bodies fill the frontyard of the morgue in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 two days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)

An arm from the body of an earthquake victim sticks out from a pile of rubble of a collapsed building in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

Two year old Redjeson Hausteen Claude reacts to his mother Daphnee Plaisin, after he is rescued from a collapsed home by Belgian and Spanish rescuers in the aftermath of the powerful earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert

 

A Spanish rescuer carries two-year-old Redjeson Hausteen after he was rescued from a home that collapsed during Tuesday's earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

 

A woman is treated for her wounds on the grounds of the Canape-Vert Hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Patrick Farrell)

A man adjusts a piece of cloth over his face as he and others try to recover a friend's wife in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)

A man holds two bottle of fuel as people crowd around a gas pump Thursday Jan. 14, 2010 in Por-au-Prince, Haiti. Gas shortage is causing long lines and angry customers. (AP Photo/The Miami Herald, Carl Juste)