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UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State [email protected] http://hiu.state.gov : Damage & Responses West of Port-au-Prince

HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT (As of 15:00EST January 19, 2010)

Epicenter Area of Aftershock Interest (25,000 est. pop.) Carrefour Léogâne (334,000 est. pop.) PORT AU Capital (134,000 est. pop.) PRINCE City Port Petit Goâve Airport (120,000 est. pop.) Road Province boundary Estimated Population Density (2008 Landscan Data) Persons per sq. km. -EST < 10 10 - 99 Jacmel 100 - 4,900 (34,000 est. pop.) 5,000 - 24,000 25,000 - 50,000 0 5 10 kilometers > 115,000 0 5 10 miles Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative. LOCATION DAMAGE RESPONSE Petit Goâve Portions of road between Petit Goâve and Jan 16: Joint UN/EU/UK Assessment takes place. Léogâne blocked due to landslides. UN Jan 18: Christian Aid distributes hygiene kits to Petit Goâve. estimates 20% of buildings destroyed. Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) reports 2,000 injuries, as of Jan 17. Léogâne UN estimates 80-90% of buildings are The damaged Sainte-Croix Hospital is struggling to treat the injured; damaged or destroyed; the quake crippled the local Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) sta is also providing many wells and reservoirs. On Jan 17, PAHO medical assistance. reported a con rmed 581 deaths and 1,300 Jan 15-16: Joint UN/EU/UK Assessment takes place. UN injuries, while the local police estimate up to Peacekeepers deliver water and food rations. 10,000 deaths. NPR reports that the security Jan 17-18: Search and rescue teams nd no survivors. UN situation appears less dangerous than in Port- Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the Agency for au-Prince. Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED) distribute food rations. Gressier UN estimates 80% of houses and 50% of all Jan 15 - 16: Joint UN/EU/UK Assessment takes place. buildings, including the police station, are destroyed. Carrefour UN estimates 40-50% of buildings are MSF is providing trauma surgery services and other medical destroyed. Rubble in the roads signi cantly assistance. complicates access to Carrefour, as of Jan 18. Jan 15 -16: Joint UN/EU/UK Assessment takes place. Jan 16-18: Search and rescue teams continue searching for survivors. Ministry of Health identi es locations to establish eld hospitals. Jan 19: Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) and Global Medic establish a water distribution center for 30,000 IDPs sheltering on the university campus. An estimated 2,000 houses are totally Jan 17: Haitian Red Cross sets up eld hospital. International destroyed, leaving approximately 6,000 Organization for Migration distributes hygiene kits and plastic people homeless; the main hospital suered sheeting. massive damage and several schools Jan 18: ACTED distributes supplies. UNICEF and the World Food collapsed. At least 332 people are con rmed Program (WFP) distribute water and kitchen kits. VITAL Aid delivers dead, as of Jan 17. Only all-terrain vehicles can 4,000 tents and 300 family survival kits. pass through the heavily damaged road from Jan 19: MSF establishes operations out of the damaged hospital. Port-au-Prince to Jacmel, a seven hour trip Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in (more than twice the usual travel time). Other Overseas Cooperative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA) also provide vehicles must take detours. assistance.

UNCLASSIFIED Sources: ACDI/VOCA (Agricultural Cooperative Development International/Volunteers in Overseas Cooperative Assistance), January 19, 2010 - U120 8-03 STATE (HIU) ACTED (Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development), MINUSTAH, MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières), Plan UK, UNICEF, WFP, PAHO, VOA, Miami Herald, CNN, CHF International, UNDAC, Radio Heritage (Trinidad), Christian Aid, IOM, BBC, NPR, UNOCHA, UN LOGISTICS