Here is a an excerpt from a recent blog on Painted Soul, with alarming facts about the loss of life and recent earthquake in Haiti.

Poverty is an Unnatural Disaster

An Excerpt ==

“Did you know that the 1989 San Francisco Bay Area earthquake was the SAME in Seismic Magnitude as the earthquake in Haiti?  But that, my friends, is where the similarities end…

“San Francisco is just under 50 square miles…and has less than 1 million people.  Port-au-Prince is less than 15 square miles and has a population over 2 million and probably higher than because census takers always miscount shanty towns (that dapple the hillsides outside of Port-au-Prince).

“63 people died in the 1989 San Francisco Quake (actually known as the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake).  About 4,000 were injured and 15,000 left homeless.

“In Haiti, the estimates are around 60,000 dead, hundreds of thousands are injured and the estimates are around 2 million people homeless and displaced — in less than 1 minute!…” — Niles Comer, Painted Soul: Poverty is an Unnatural Disaster