Haiti quake rescuers keep hoping against hope

Earthquake-hit Haiti faces a high risk of possibly damaging aftershocks for at least 30 days and is set to suffer further tremors for months or even years to come, the US Geological Survey said Friday.The capital Port-au-Prince was hit by two fresh aftershocks on Friday, 10 days after the initial 7.0-magnitude quake killed at least 75,000 people and left half a million others homeless.

Another earthquake is threatening to hit Haiti with as much, if not more force than the massive temblor that leveled Port-au-Prince, seismologists said, urging the country to rebuild with strict norms.Aftershocks have already rattled the impoverished Caribbean nation in the days following the January 12 quake that killed over 110,000 people, left nearly 610,000 homeless and injured scores more.On Wednesday, a magnitude 5.9 temblor struck a people already scrambling to rebuild their tattered lives.

Michael Johnston submits:Just weeks after a devastating earthquake sparked a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, another natural disaster has hit the South American nation of Chile. Early Saturday morning, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake, the fifth strongest ever measured in the country, occurred off of Chile’s coast, causing massive destruction throughout the region.

A powerful earthquake jolted China’s Sichuan province Saturday near where a devastating quake struck five years ago, killing at least 70 people and leaving more than 2,000 hurt, prompting worries the death toll will climb.

Haiti's earthquake death toll will top 150,000, a minister said Sunday as rescuers located a possible new survivor beneath the rubble of the capital 12 days after the disaster.The United Nations appealed for more troops to be sent in as police struggled to control fresh outbreaks of looting in devastated Port-au-Prince, while a new aftershock rocked the stricken country.

Anger and despair mounted in quake-hit Haiti with rotting bodies littering the streets and little sign of desperately needed international aid for the hundreds of thousands of victims.The stench of death hung over the capital Port-au-Prince as residents, still clawing through rubble in the hunt for survivors, faced another night in the open, traumatized by aftershocks triggered by Tuesday's 7.0 earthquake.