Strong after-shock at 6:03 AM local time sends Haitians and rescuers back to the streets of Port Au Prince

Shake Map Haiti 6.1 Richter earthquake 1/20/2010 6:03 AM US Geologicial Survey

A new strong earthquake hit Haiti this morning. The quake was inland 35 miles WSW of Port au Prince, Haiti and 6.2 miles below the surface. That would put the quake on the northern side of the peninsula that stretches west from Port-Au-Prince, almost at a mid-point to La Cayes which sustained serious damage last week.

Reports from the stricken region are coming in. “Some buildings already weakened by last week’s quake collapsed and wails of terror filled the air as frightened survivors poured out of unstable buildings, a BBC correspondent in the region said.” BBC

Haitian rock musician Wyclef Jean, who has been working from the first moments of last week’s quake, just Twittered “6.1 Earthquake again We need 2 evacuate people out side of the Capital. 2 n open field with tents through out haiti, I’m Asking 4 a Exodus”

The need to move people, if possible from the virtually destroyed city of Port au Prince my be the only possibility to keep people from further injury.

Haiti 6.2 earthquake January 20, 2010 WSW of Port-au-Prince (click for larger image) US Geological Survey

Rescue workers don’t want to quit.

“Rescuers pulled a three-week-old baby girl alive from the rubble of a house more than a week after it was destroyed in Haiti’s devastating earthquake, French radio reported on Wednesday. French rescuers found the girl in a hollow beneath the ruins of the house in Jacmel, a town in the south of the island, after spending five hours trying the get through to her. The baby’s uncle told the station that the girl, named Elisabeth, was 23 days old. The station reported she was in healthy condition and did not appear wounded and had been taken to an American field hospital nearby.” AFP

“Patients at a hospital near Haiti’s airport in Port-au-Prince immediately started praying as the ground shook like a ship rocking back and forth. They asked for forgiveness and protection, a nurse said. At least one injury was reported in the moments after the aftershock, which struck at 6:03 a.m. ET.” CNN

Rescuers pulled a three-week-old baby girl alive from the rubble of a house more than a week after it was destroyed in Haiti's devastating earthquake, French radio reported on Wednesday. Photograph by: Julie Remy, AFP/Medecins Sans Frontieres/Handout

“Ena Zizi, 69, was rescued from the wreckage of the residence of Haiti’s Roman Catholic archbishop on Monday, a day before crews recovered the body of the archbishop himself, Monsignor Joseph Serge Miot. Another survivor, 26-year-old Lozama Hotteline, was rescued from beneath a collapsed supermarket with the help of teams from Turkey and France. Television pictures showed her smiling and singing as she was carried to safety.

The United Nations said on Wednesday that 121 people had been rescued by international teams since the 12 January earthquake – an extra 31 people compared to Tuesday’s figure. Haitian officials say the quake has killed up to 200,000, injured some 250,000, and made 1.5 million homeless.” BBC

We will keep on this story as more reports arrive.