Haiti has been hit by a 6.1-magnitude aftershock, shaking buildings and sending people from the nation's capital fleeing into the streets just over a week after a devastating earthquake.
So far, there have been no reports of injuries or damage in Port-au-Prince or surrounding areas. Haiti has been hit by a series of aftershocks since last week's 7.0-magnitude quake, with most ranging in magnitiude from 4.0 to 5.0, but Wednesday's aftershock has been the strongest.
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"This definitely is considered a strong earthquake with the potential to cause some major damage," CBC meterologist Johanna Wagstaffe said.
She said serious shaking would have been felt up to 200 kilometres away from the centre.
CBC's David Common, reporting from Port-au-Prince, said the aftershock lasted about 10 seconds.
Common said it's difficult to differentiate damage caused by the original earthquake and that that may have been caused by the aftershock, but there have been no reports of major damage or people trapped.
"This was a pretty strong aftershock and there were a number of buildings that were in very poor condition that would have taken a bit of a nudge to fall over. This probably did it in some cases."
But Common said most people have not been staying indoors, fearing that aftershocks could bring the rest of the buildings down.
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"I know that in places where people were inside, they quickly moved outside because of this," he said. "It was brief but very strong. We saw that the trees swaying, cars were moving around on the road.
Ship sent to remove debris
Meanwhile, U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates is sending a ship to Haiti's main port to help remove debris that has blocked the delivery of supplies as the U.S. ramps up its relief efforts in the country.
Gates, speaking in India, said the ship would carry cranes and could help get the port back in operation within a week or two.
Relief workers have said the damaged port has prevented large ships from docking and stymied the delivery of food and emergency supplies to victims of last week's earthquake.
Bottlenecks at the damaged harbour and at the capital's airport continue to make it difficult to distribute supplies
About 2,200 U.S. marines have joined 9,000 soldiers who were already on the ground. Helicopters have been dropping food off at distribution points.
The U.S. military had been criticized for its organization of the single-runway airport at Port-au-Prince, with some complaining about how they were prioritizing flights.
But the U.S. air force said Tuesday it had raised the facility's daily capacity to 180 flights, from 30 before the quake.
Meanwhile, Alain Jaffre, a spokesman for the World Food Program, said the UN agency hoped to help 100,000 people by Wednesday.
But so far, 250,000 ready-to-eat food rations have been distributed in Haiti. Officials say around three million people are in need. The WFP said it needs to deliver 100 million ready-to-eat rations in the next 30 days.
The death toll from the quake is estimated at more than 200,000, with about 70,000 bodies recovered and trucked off to mass graves. Around 250,000 have been injured 1.5 million left homeless.
But rescue workers are still pulling out survivors from the rubble, a week after thousands were killed by the 7.0 earthquake in Haiti and days after most experts believe victims can survive.
Around midnight Tuesday, 26-year-old Lozama Hotteline was carried to safety from a collapsed store in the Petionville neighbourhood by the French aid group Rescuers Without Borders.
Earlier that day, Ena Zizi, a 69-year-old ardent Roman Catholic who said she prayed constantly while buried under the rubble, was rescued by a Mexican disaster team.
Doctors who examined Zizi said she was dehydrated and had a dislocated hip and a broken leg.
"I'm all right, sort of," she said.
Experts have said that without water, buried quake victims were unlikely to survive beyond three days.
Zizi said that after the quake, she spoke with a vicar who also was trapped. But after a few days, he fell silent and she spent the rest of the time praying and waiting.
Authorities said close to 100 people had been pulled from wrecked buildings by international search-and-rescue teams.
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