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San Francisco Earthquake, 1906. Magnitude 7.9

Great Kanto Earthquake, 1923. Magnitude 8.3

Cook Inlet (near Anchorage), Alaska, 1964. Magnitude 9.2

Kobe Earthquake, 1995. Magnitude 6.8

Haiti, 2010. Magnitude 7.0

In class today my photojournalism students and I had a nice discussion about the Haitian Earthquake, the media and photographs of suffering and destruction in general. To give this recent event some perspective we looked back at our recent and not-so-recent collective memories for images of other infamous natural disasters and decided that the Haitian Earthquake is and will be one of the most photographed disasters of all time. Below is a list of websites through which you can donate money to aid the relief efforts.

1. Action Against Hunger
2. American Jewish World Service
3. American Red Cross
4. American Refugee Committee
5. AmeriCares
6. CARE
7. Catholic Relief Services
8. Church World Service
9. Doctors Without Borders – USA
10. International Medical Corps
11. International Rescue Committee
12. Lutheran World Relief
13. Medical Teams International
14. Mennonite Central Committee
15. Mercy Corps
16. Operation USA
17. Oxfam-America
18. Project Concern International
19. Save the Children
20. Salvation Army
21. UMCOR (United Methodist Committee on Relief)
22. World Concern (Program of Crista Ministries)
23. World Vision

A classroom is a perfect place to collectively reflect and talk through a tragedy like this. It was interesting to hear people’s opinions on the media and the role of a journalist, and it is inspiring to listen to the next generation of journalists make intelligent, empathetic and thoughtful statements.

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