<p class="first"><a href=”https://globalgrind.com/”s envoy to the US talked of a "catastrophe of major proportions". </a></p><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">Buildings, including a hospital, are said to have collapsed, and rescue efforts are under way. </a></p><!– E SF –><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">The quake, which struck about 15km (10 miles) south-west of the capital, was quickly followed by two strong aftershocks of 5.9 and 5.5 magnitude. </a></p><!– Inline Embbeded Media –> <!– This is the embedded player component –>
<!– end of the embedded player component –> <!– END of Inline Embedded Media –><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">The tremor hit at 1653 (2153 GMT), the US Geological Survey said. Phone lines to the country failed shortly afterwards. </a></p><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">A Reuters reporter in Port-au-Prince, Joseph Guyler Delva, said he had seen "dozens of dead and injured people" in the rubble of fallen buildings. </a></p><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">Karel Zelenka, a Catholic Relief Services representative in Port-au-Prince, told colleagues in the US "there must be thousands of people dead". </a></p><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">The aid worker had managed to phone his colleagues before communication links went down. </a></p><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">The BBC’s Nick Davies in neighbouring Jamaica says the ground apparently shook for more than a minute in Haiti. </a></p><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">Local people, he said, were using anything they could get their hands on – including farm equipment – to help release those trapped in the quake. </a></p><p><a href="http://news3333.blogspot.com/">Our correspond
