A map indicating the intensity of the earthquake in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, made by USGS. 
Senior Pastor Clint Henry of the Central Valley Baptist Church told reporters New Life Children's Refuge, and the Haiti mission, are separate from the 25-year-old church. 
Police said the Americans did not have paperwork, nor permissions, to remove the children from the country. 
The USGS reports that the epicentre was fifteen kilometres southwest of Port-au-Prince and 1,140 kilometers southeast of Miami, Florida, at a depth of ten kilometres. 
No deaths have yet been reported, but a hospital in Port-au-Prince was damaged. 
An earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.0, struck Haiti on January 12, killing as much as 200,000 people and largely destroying the capital Port-au-Prince; another million have been left without homes. 
The Red Cross in Geneva says that up to 3 million people have been affected. 
The US Agency for International Development is dispatching a disaster assistance response team to Haiti and commented that it will continue to provide additional support as needed. 
"People are still very traumatised here," said a reporter for the Al Jazeera news agency who was in Haiti when the aftershock struck. 
Many people were in the UN building when it went down and they remain unaccounted for. 
A 7.0 magnitude earthquake has struck off the coast of Haiti 21:53 UTC. 
The Haitian ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph, told CNN the Caribbean nation is seeking US assistance, and called the quake a catastrophe of major proportions. 
