Breaking: 7.0 Earthquake off coast of Haiti

[Dave]

According to initial reports, the earthquake which happened a little while ago near Port-au-Prince has not affected Labadee or the surrounding area on the north coast.

[Dave]

No word on deaths or damage in the other parts of Haiti or nearby nations.

How terrible. Take a poor country like Haiti, with lots of rickety homes and people living in poverty, and add this to their misery.

[jalit77]

I just heard about the earthquake in Haiti, my prayers go out to the people who were affected.

[LisaP]

I am so sad for the people who were affected. The news gets worse with each update. I hadn't realized how many people live in Port-au-Prince -- roughly 1.7 million according to a couple of sources I checked. Very sad.

[Dwayne]

This is truly an awful thing to happen. My prayers are with them. The country just can't get a break it seems. I hope the international community helps them.

Dwayne

[TexCruise]

From the report I just saw it sounds like many casualties. Sad

[Casanova frankenstein]

Well I can only pray for them
I am really sorry I just ask GOD to give them strenght and I can only hope I never have to deal with a situation like this, our last earthquake was on 1918 we are long overdue on the island...

[cica]

How horible. My prayers go out to the people of Haiti.

[BarbH]

When we turned on the news last night, we were shocked by the earthquake news. We had been in Labadee exactly ONE week ago to the day on our cruise. My prayers go out to those suffering there, and additional prayers of thanks that it didn't happen a week ago while we were there (I know it would have been terrifying to our children).

By the way - it was by far our favorite stop of the week - what a beautiful place!!!

[corkgirl]

Yes it was my favourite stop too, prayers go out to all of them