ARMENIA TO DONATE $100 THOUSAND FOR HAITI EARTHQUAKE RELIEF
PanARMENIAN.Net
21.01.2010 12:47 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Armenia will donate $100 thousand for Haiti
earthquake relief, RA Prime Minister said.
"Armenia was on alert several hours after the quake. 50 rescuers stood
ready to depart for Haiti but couldn’t due to some technical reasons.
Armenia’s anxiety is understandable: our country which experienced
the consequences of a devastating earthquake, was rendered assistance
by international structures in due time," Tigran Sargsyan said during
Jan. 21 government session.
"We want to help and this $100 thousand will be spent on reconstruction
works," he said.
The 2010 Haiti Earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw
earthquake centered approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) from
Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, striking at 16:53:09 local time
(21:53:09 UTC) on Tuesday, 12 January 2010. The earthquake occurred
at a depth of 13 kilometers (8.1 mi). The United States Geological
Survey recorded a series of aftershocks, fourteen of them between
magnitudes 5.0 and 5.9. The International Red Cross estimated that
about three million people were affected by the quake, and Haitian
authorities believe that up to 200,000 could be dead, exceeding
earlier Red Cross estimates of 45,000-50,000 people killed.