Haiti Earthquake Impact

• More than 200,000 families, comprising up to one million people, need immediate shelter and non-food assistance.
• The United Nations has estimated that three million people were affected, and 300,000 left homeless. Some 40 tent cities have sprung up in Port-au-Prince, the Red Cross has estimated.
• Some 80 to 90 percent of buildings in the town of Leogane, just outside Port-au-Prince near the epicenter of quake, were destroyed, and 50 to 60 percent of buildings in Jacmel to the west were leveled.
• At least 25,000 corpses have already been buried.
• Some 27 international search-and-rescue teams, with about 1,500 personnel and 115 rescue dogs, are on the ground.
• The UN humanitarian department has appealed for $560 million from the world community to assist Haiti quake victims.