Why do people care more about the Haitian earthquake than the Samoan earthquake?

The Samoan tsunami story was huge in New Zealand and was voted the top news story of 2009 and beacuse of the close relationship between New Zealand and Samoa it recieved far more attention from NZ media then Haiti is at the moment.

But then again I think its not the size of the actual disasters themselves but the number of people that are victimized by it. Over 200,000 people have died in Haiti which may explain why the US are really them their full attention,because it is a massive task .

If I'm not mistaken, the Samoa Island earthquake happened in September 2009. It takes an insensitive individual to compare the Richter's scale to determine which is most important right now. Lives are at stake, no matter the scale, when and where it happened. It's devastating. Our attention is on the Haitians right now, the Samoans are recovering.

I hear your pain, but I was around for the Samoan earthquake and a lot of people cared. They had the same trouble that Haiti has, you couldn't get in, didn't know where to send money. I hear your pain. If you wanted to send money, here's a couple places. God. Bless

Aid agencies helping victims of the quake

American Red Cross-response fund at www.redcross.org

Americares-donations at www.americares.org

Habitat for Humanity-donations at www.habitat.org

Operation USA-donations of money and United Air Line miles at www.opusa.org

UNICEF-donations at www.unicefusa.org

World vision=donations at www.worldvision.org

Yele Hati-donations at www.yele.org or you can donate $5 by texting yele to 501 501

because it happened more recently