Helping Haiti

I lived in California for a few years and once experienced a 4.0 earthquake. Many people don't understand that each number in front of the decimal represents a 10x increase in strength of a quake. In otherwords, the 7.0 that happened in Haiti is 1000 times stronger than that little 4.0 that made a mess by knocking stuff off of shelves. I wonder how many of the earth quake resistant structures required in California would survive a 7.0? Now I imagine the structures in a poor country with basically no building codes and am quite sure that the limited images we are seeing can't do the breadth of devastation justice. Television & radio programs, Facebook walls and rss feeds, emails and texts-- even former presidents-- are all buzzing with how we can help. If you have the ability, every little bit matters when people are dying. Please consider doing what you can.