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Expected to grow and potentially9 into the tens of thousands. the largest haitian-american community in the u.s. is in partnership miami. >> those people are really poor. imagine crumbled houses with no parents or no family or no kids. i'm a survivor, so i know how they feel. i'm having chills. goose bumps right now. >> reporter: eleven years ago a 7.0 earthquake devastateed port-au-prince killing an estimated 300,000 people. the country has been rebuilding ever since. saturday's quake happened west of the capital, and that that's where most of the heavy damage is anticipated but with getting ...

Concurrently address this crisis along with the other crises we are facing and the country is experiencing. >> reporter: it's been about one month since the killing of the president in his home. the country is also recovering9 from the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands of people in 2010. usaid administrator samantha power is in charge of the white house's response, she says the u.s. is sending a 65-person search team to help with rescues there and also bringing specialized equipment. again, arthel, so many people are still missing at this time. arthel: so devastating a...

Killed over 2,000 people in haiti. it was closer to port-au-prince in the capital where the population is. there's still plenty of small towns in the area, haiti, one of the poorest nations in the caribbean infrastructure is certainly difficult and because of that poverty people don't have really kind of the means to protect themselves. we are going to get a lot of information coming out here to see what kind of damage this will have. now keep in mind, take a look at our map here. this was originally 7.2. i think they are getting reassessments, down to 7.0. lots of shocks continuing to happen....

More bad news coming, tropical storm grace is formed and could hit haiti and when you dump rain, sustained winds of 60 miles per hour, that's going to make a life or death situation so much worse. >> thank you, patrick. allison, there are two named storms in the frregion, fred an grace. in any way, did storm activity possibly trigger an earthquake like this? >> not even 1% chance. what we want to point out is that grace will have impact on the area in the form of rain. they're going to be cleaning up, having a recovery process. the magnitude 7.0, comparisons are made to the one in 2010. even t...

Been issued. —— tsunami alert. 0fficials been issued. —— tsunami alert. officials have also reported that there have been some fatalities and also damage to some homes. no images here at the bbc yet but we understand there are some there and we will verify them before we bring you an update on that. there is a lot of concern because in 2010, haiti was struck by an earthquake which was in iraq magnitude. it was a 7.0 magnitude. today's is a 7.2. earlierfigures put it a 7.0 magnitude. today's is a 7.2. earlier figures put it at 7.3 to 7.5 but the usgs have said it is 7.2. those figures c...