Thema Almonor barely slept Tuesday night.
“It’s awful,” said the Collegedale resident, who moved to the United States in 1998 but still has many close relatives in earthquake-shattered Haiti.
“You call and there’s no answer so you don’t know if people are OK or not,” she said.
Local Haitians have been glued to their televisions since a 7.0-magnitude earthquake hit near the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, devastating the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Information on how many people were killed or affected by the earthquake is still not available, but more than 2 million people live in Port-au-Prince. The Associated Press has reported that about 100,000 could be dead.