It's believed that this video shows buildings collapsing and the earth shaking during the 7.0 quake that devastated Haiti Tuesday. It took just 30 seconds to knock the indigent country into an even lower ring of hell than it was before. There is no official estimate on the number of dead, but it's been said it may be in the six figure range. Appearing on Morning Joe, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that 3 million people, about a third of Haiti’s population, had been affected by the quake. Over 100,000 Haitian-Americans live in NYC, and many of them are desperately awaiting contact from their loved ones.

"They didn't know what happened to their brothers, their sisters, their children, their mothers, their fathers," Haitian-American City Council member Matthieu Eugene told the Post. Frank Thorp, a Connecticut native who lives in Haiti, was 100 miles north of Port-au-Prince when the quake hit; but his wife Jillian, who works with Haitian Ministries for the Diocese of Norwich, Conn., was in the capital. Thorp drove six hours to the building where she worked, which was reduced to rubble. He tells CBS News:

I had spoken to her on Skype for about ten seconds. She said she was trapped and that's all that I knew. It was absolutely terrifying. By the time that I got here, she was still trapped, but it was in time—we were able to pull her out. I jumped into the hole and I was able to see her wave her hand. I couldn't see her whole body. She was just waving. And I could hear her voice. And it was—I mean, you know, I couldn't hold it together, but all she was saying was, 'Just hold it together. Hold it together. Just get me out of here.' "

One Canadian woman trapped under wreckage was rescued after texting a message from her cellphone to the Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa, Reuters reports. Her message was relayed to Canadian diplomats back in Haiti, who rushed to her aid. Many others were not so lucky, and the horrible news is just beginning to filter back to loved ones around the world. A Daily News reporter was with one woman outside Radio Soleil D'Haiti in Flatbush when her phone rang. "Why?" wailed 38-year-old Marie Hilaire, telling the News, "My cousin just called me from Florida, just called to tell me. He says my father-in-law died."