This morning we were shaken awake by another big earthquake. The apartment started shaking at 6:03am and we quickly learned the source was a 6.1 magnitude tremor almost directly under Petit Goave. This time it was a little bit further from Port au Prince than last weeks 7.0 but it was still very close and definitely strong enough to destroy buildings that had already been weakened. We haven’t heard anything from our team in Port since this morning but chances are that they weren’t effected at their based which is located to the North of the city. The area they are at saw a much smaller impact from last weeks quake than most of the city.
Joy left first thing this morning to head to Port to help deal with the logistics of all the arriving medical teams. A group of Wesleyan Methodist missionaries from a town near ours shared the boat with her on their way out of the country. This group also dropped off all of their food with us on their way out which helped replenish supplies here. Today one of our tasks will be to go through all of our supplies, determine how long things will last and which needs are most vital. We are currently in contact with three different aid ships that should be coming through the channel on their way to port. Our hope is that we can get one to divert and bring the town some of its valuable food and fuel resources. It’s still hard to say how bad it will be but we can be certain that food and fuel scarcity will be a big issue here in the coming weeks. Please continue to pray for aid for the island and for our medical teams in Port.
- Matt
