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At 8:29:09 a.m. EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti. The earthquake struck with a 10-kilometre deep hypocenter near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, approximately 150 kilometres west of the capital city, Port-au-Prince. The strong earthquake spawned tsunami warnings for the Haitian Coast, which were lifted shortly after. The US Geological Survey estimates "high casualties" and widespread disaster, with the number of casualties currently estimated at 227, making it currently the deadliest earthquake of 2021, and the deadliest such event worldwide since the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake.

In Quake-Ravaged Haiti, Rescuers Scramble To Save People Trapped In Rubble

Dr. Inobert Pierre is a pediatrician with the nonprofit Health Equity International, which oversees St. Boniface Hospital, about two hours from Les Cayes. He tells The Associated Press that, "Basically, they need everything."

"Many of the patients have open wounds and they have been exposed to not-so-clean elements," he says.

The prime minister's office says 13,694 houses were destroyed by the quake and its aftermath, and 13,585 houses were damaged. Hospitals and schools have also been damaged or destroyed.

Jerry Chandler, the head of the office for civil protection for Haiti, says the needs right now are vast, but the first priority is getting medical care for people injured by falling debris.

"We have a lot of trauma patients that are still not attended," he tells NPR. "A lot of the hospitals that are in the region that was affected [are] either overrun or affected themselves structurally."

Goods are being shipped by boat, in small planes and helicopters on loan from the Dominican Republic and the U.S., he says.

Digging through the rubble

Digging through the rubble of a hotel in Les Cayes, rescuers on Monday found the bodies of 15 people. Jean Moise Fortunè, whose brother, the hotel owner, was killed in the quake, tells the AP that he believes two or three more are still trapped in the ruins.

At a soccer field in Les Cayes, families who lost their homes in the quake erected sheets suspended from sticks to keep off the sun, the AP reports.