On January 12, 2010, a magnitude 7 earthquake hit the island of Haiti, almost directly beneath the capital of Port-au-Prince. The city has been devastated, whole neighborhoods flattened as ancient buildings, most not built to withstand earthquakes, disintegrated in rubble. Early estimates are that more than 100,000 people may be dead and millions displaced.
I've created this feed to pull together syndication and twitter resources on the site. Having been in a couple of earthquakes, I feel strongly in trying to help in any way possible the people that are now recovering from this tragedy. I've also set up a list of syndication resources at http://www.xmltoday.org/content/haiti-earthquake-blog-and-twitter-resources. If you have other resources that you'd like to add to this list, please add them in comments to the article and I'll try to get them incorporated into the feed stream.
Former tennis greats Andre Agassi and Martina Navratilova stole the limelight with their wit while playing in exhibition matches on Friday to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake.
INDIAN WELLS, California (AFP) - Tennis greats past and present teamed up in lighthearted doubles matches to aid a serious cause - earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even ...
Reuters reports that U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Haiti tomorrow to meet the country's leaders and people left homeless by a January earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Ban's spokesman said. ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Trash and sewage are piling up at the squalid tent camps that hundreds of thousands have called home since Haiti's devastating earthquake - and with torrential rains expected any day, authorities are not even close to providing the shelters they promised.

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