PHOTO LINK BELOW: As reported earlier, officials fear more than 100,000 people have died as a result of Tuesday’s 7.0-magnitude earthquake in Haiti.

The country’s prime minister said the death toll could be in the hundreds of thousands.

“I hope that is not true, because I hope the people had the time to get out,” Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said.

President Rene Preval said he heard reports of death tolls ranging from 30,000 to 100,000 — but he said the true toll is not yet known.

“Some of the hospitals, they have collapsed,” Preval said. “We need some hospitals, some medicine and some doctors.”

The earthquake’s power matched that of several nuclear bombs, said Roger Searle, a professor of geophysics in the Earth Sciences Department at Durham University in England. He said the combination of its magnitude and geographical shallowness made it particularly dangerous.

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(Source: CNN / Fox News)