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"They need a better future and permanent jobs, to work with dignity." "What they ask us is that they need the water, food, the shelter and all these basic needs. "During my recent visit to Haiti I have met many people," said Ban, referring to a one-day visit on Jan. president Bill Clinton speak to reporters at the United Nations in New York on Thursday. United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, right, and former U.S. "We now have to move from the emergency response to face ongoing relief and eventually construction of the Haitian economy," Ban said at a news conference in New York with Bill Clinton, the UN special envoy and former U.S. Geophysicist Susan Potter said people can feel aftershocks that register as little as magnitude-2.0, but the service has yet to detect anything weaker than a magnitude-4.5 trembler in Haiti, where detection equipment is not densely concentrated.Įarlier Thursday, the United Nations said it will establish a "cash for work" program in Haiti to help the country recover from quake and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community for its support. Geological Survey did not immediately have a measurement of the aftershock. Ensuing aftershocks have reached as high as magnitude-5.9.

People in Port-au-Prince said the brief temblor was not as strong as several others since the magnitude-7.0 earthquake that devastated the city Jan. Another aftershock hit the Haitian capital Thursday night, sending some earthquake survivors into the streets in the dark.