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Obviously, all quantitative measures of this ongoing tragedy are still preliminary at best and total guess as worst, but, for what it’s worth, a Haitian Red Cross official is estimating that 45,000-50,000 people died in the earthquake.
“No one knows with precision, no one can confirm a figure,” Victor Jackson, an assistant national coordinator with Haiti’s [...]
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It’s just coming out that at least a hundred thousand people may have died in the Haitian earthquake (according to the Haitian Prime Minister) making this the worst catastrophe in Western Hemisphere history.
(UPDATE: In an interview with CNN’s Sanjay Gupta, Haitian President Rene Preval has more recently said that he has “heard reports of death tolls ranging [...]
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More on the 7.0 magnitude earthquake devastated Haiti last evening that has left ”thousands” dead and Port-au-Prince is in shambles. [UPDATE: You can see the Haitian tragedy in photos from the Boston Globe.]
The Haitian president, René Préval, told The Miami Herald that the toll was “unimaginable” and estimated that thousands had died. Among those feared dead were the [...]
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European winter. Airline security. The asteroid apocalypse.
These were the topics of the discussion when us editors of Risk Managment got together to record this fourth installment of the RiskCast for your listening pleasure. Those of you who listen to the whole thing will get to hear a candid conversation about our biggest fears. Morgan’s are [...]
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