Workers are desperately trying to provide a food, water and medicine to 2,000 evacuation centers, as well as provide critical medical, mental health and sanitation services.
Japan raised the nuclear alert level from a four to a five, on par with Three Mile Island. This decision has shocked many nuclear experts who thought it should be higher.
An 8.9 Richter-scale earthquake could have ripped apart at least four coastal reactors and sent a lethal cloud of radiation across the entire United States.
The planet's rising temps mean the state faces greater risk of a "superstorm" that could flood the Central Valley, causing damage that would dwarf even a major earthquake.
The U.S.S. Comfort, the symbol of U.S. humanitarian aid and generosity, left Haiti last week. The U.S. military has judged that its relief mission has been completed.
As mainstream media coverage of the January 12 earthquake declines, Haitian media owners, publishers, and radio hosts in the United States are feeling their role more acutely.
