I used to live on San Andreas Fault aswell.
Part of the problem with Haiti is that decades with corrupt government has made the country extremely unstable, they did not get a democratically chosen leader until 2004. The current government predicts that the number of dead will be somewhere between 100 and 200 thousand by the time all is over. Though it is impossible to tell, most think that the number of dead has surpassed 100 thousand already. Besides that the country is not too well off economically, I heard in the news here that the government has proudly stated that 500 thousand HTG (Haitian Gourde) have been raised within the country, now bear in mind that there are a bit less that 40 HTG per USD, that is really not a lot of money! (Its about 12.5 thousand USD, so about half the cost of one semester at Stanford University, unless admission fees have been much changed since I moved). Furthermore Haiti has next to no military to help, all but their coast guard having been demobilized.
Most charities in DK are accepting donations to help Haiti, they probably are in the US as well. It seems our money could go a long way to help them.