Haiti earthquake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A strong earthquake shook Haiti Wednesday, eight days after an even larger temblor caused an estimated 200,000 deaths and widespread destruction.

Rescuers are still finding survivors in the rubble from the Jan. 12 earthquake, which was measured a 7-magnitude. A 69-year-old woman was rescued Tuesday and two children were found Tuesday night. The United Nations said 121 people were saved Tuesday and early Wednesday.

Wednesday's 6.1-magnitude aftershock caused already damaged buildings in Port-au-Prince to totter and thousands of people bolted from the structures in panic. They ran into streets strewn with debris from the first quake, which left 250,000 injured and 1.5 million homeless in addition to the estimated 200,000 dead.

Relief supplies are arriving by planes and ships but the issue remains of how to get the food, water, blankets, clothes and other necessities to the thousands of people who need them. Haiti's infrastructure, poor in the best of times, was wrecked Jan. 12.

Authorities are left with hard choices in the use of the Port-au-Prince airport: Which of the planes get the limited landing space and which are waved away when all carry much-needed cargo? The U.S. military, which is coordinating that effort, said two other airports would soon be put in use. Although, once again, getting the goods from the planes to the needy becomes a problem because of the few passable roads.