About this picture: The most powerful Earthquake to hit Haiti
Collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince.
The buildings of the finance ministry, the ministry of public works, the ministry of communication and culture, the Palace of Justice, the Superior Normal School, the National School of Administration, the Caribbean regional office of the Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF), Parliament, and Port-au-Prince Cathedral were damaged to varying degrees.
The National Palace was severely damaged.
Communications were also seriously disrupted, with a Haitian diplomat saying: "Communication is absolutely impossible...
I've been trying to call my ministry and I cannot get through." A hospital in Pétionville, a wealthy suburb of Port-au-Prince, also collapsed from the earthquake.
The headquarters of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) at the Christopher Hotel was destroyed, as were offices of the World Bank. The quake incapacitated all three Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) medical facilities around Port-Au-Prince, causing one to collapse completely and rendering the other two so unstable that they had to be abandoned.
The building housing the offices of Citibank in Port-au-Prince was destroyed, with several employees unaccounted for.
In neighboring Dominican Republic, buildings shook in the capital Santo Domingo, but no major damage was reported there.
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