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January 14, 2010

Google Earth maps Haiti destruction

The folks at Google Earth apparently worked double-time yesterday to make the latest satellite images available of the destruction in Haiti.

They added the most recent satellite imagery of Haiti, taken at approximately 10:27am EST yesterday, and made it available as a KML overlay for Google Earth, according to Google's LatLong blog.

The blog post has links to the imagery, which is focused on the Port-au-Prince area.

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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 8:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

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I need to know some news about my families,they leaving in villge de Dieu,bicentenaire,and they some they leaving Saintard, archaie.

Posted by: Sainrival allrich | January 14, 2010 10:06 AM

To: Sainrival allrich

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it set up a Web site to help Haitians find missing loved ones. Robert Zimmerman, deputy head of the group's tracing unit, said people in Haiti and abroad can use the site to register names of missing relatives

Posted by: robin noyes | January 14, 2010 11:40 AM

am trying to locate my family my oncle is a doctor live in dela 83 street barbancourt no news sens this tragedy starded cant see or get some news from no were !!!!! ?????

Posted by: woodmy | January 14, 2010 1:42 PM

please help me find my family. they live petion ville delma 89 imps. my mother, father big brother little sister live there. i am only 17 yrs old i cant live without them pls help. there names are Santhonax, immucula, wood sanderly, and peterson pierre. my aunts name is Namotte Simon,with 2 cousin, landy and malou marcelin.

Posted by: marrlyne | January 15, 2010 7:06 AM

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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