PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A strong earthquake of poor country of Haiti Tuesday, the collapse of the presidential palace and many other important public buildings and feared significant losses in what a witness called in A major, major disaster. The quake had a magnitude of 7.0 and was centered about 10 miles west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It was followed by at least eight aftershocks of 5.0 or starchlarger, the USGS reported. "The people out there screaming, crying in the streets, to call," said Karel Zelenka, director of Catholic Relief Services office in Haiti, the Washington Post. "You see the extent of the damage," he said, but can do little to save people. Copyright 2010 MSNBC www.msnbc.msn.com
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