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UPDATE 11:29 pm EST: Pure spec­u­la­tion but the USS Carl Vin­son has been under­way from Nor­folk headed to its new home port in Cal­i­for­nia for about ten hours. Vin­son would make a for­mi­da­ble plat­form for assist­ing the earth­quake vic­tims in Haiti. The Abra­ham Lin­coln Car­rier Bat­tle Group lead the way after the Indone­sian tsunami.

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UPDATE 10:51 pm EST: After­shocks con­tinue. Now at 23, 10 of which are 5.0 or greater.

After­shocks of the Haiti earth­quake as recorded by the USGS. Click on image for larger view.

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UPDATE 10:31 pm EST: Wyclef Jean is rais­ing relief funds on Twit­ter and on his blog.

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UPDATE 09:39 pm EST: U.S. Agency for Inter­na­tional Devel­op­ment send­ing search and res­cue teams. UN build­ing in Port-au-Prince heav­ily damaged.

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UPDATE 08:55 pm EST: 13 after­shocks as of five min­utes ago. 7 were over 5.0.

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UPDATE 08:47 pm EST: Reports are that the con­trol tower at the air­port in Port-au-Prince is heav­ily dam­aged. Noth­ing land­ing. U.S. mil­i­tary has teams trained to land and restore oper­a­tions. May be first on the ground?

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The United States gov­ern­ment has issued clear state­ments this evening of its inten­tion to pro­vide mas­sive aid to the earth­quake rav­aged nation of Haiti. Both Pres­i­dent Obama and Sec­re­tary of State Clin­ton were quick to issue press statements.

The U.S. military's South­ern Com­mand will be the lead mil­i­tary agency in any relief effort. After a hur­ri­cane struck Haiti in Sep­tem­ber of 2008, ships, per­son­nel and air­craft were used to assist aid orga­ni­za­tions and to pro­vide sup­plies to the stricken nation. LINK 1 LINK 2

Naval Sta­tion Guan­tanamo Bay was key to mis­sion in 2008. If Hait­ian roads and air­fields are too dam­aged, this port will be needed both as a stag­ing area and as a place to trans­ship mate­r­ial and personnel.

Fol­low­ing the Indone­sian tsunami, we learned that most Amer­i­can embassies have a dis­as­ter relief fund that can be used at the dis­cre­tion of the ambas­sador. Those mil­lions will be com­mit­ted almost at once.

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UPDATE: The list is get­ting long, so I have moved it to its own page:
Haiti Earth­quake Relief

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See update above. Here are the web­sites for a few of the orga­ni­za­tions respond­ing to the Hait­ian earthquake.

• Ameri­Cares
• Amer­i­can Jew­ish World Service
• Con­voy of Hope
• Direct Relief International
• Food for the Hungry
• Inter­na­tional Med­ical Corps
• Med­ical Teams International
• Mercy Corps
• Oper­a­tion USA
• Oxfam Amer­ica
• Samaritan's Purse
• Save the Children
• World Vision

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