CONCACAF President Jack Warner expressed his condolences to Haitian Football Federation President Yves Jean Bart regarding Tuesday's earthquake, writing in a letter that he was "deeply saddened by this tragedy which has taken so many lives and wreaked so much destruction."

A magnitude 7.0 quake with an epicenter 10 miles (16 kilometers) southwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince struck Tuesday afternoon, killing potentially as many as 500,000 leading Sen. Youri Latortue told The Associated Press.

"To offer hope in a time when all seems hopeless may seem cosmetic. To believe that joy can be restored in the face of so much despair borders on insensitivity," Warner wrote. "I believe, however, that all things work together for good to them that love the Lord and though weeping may endure through the night, there is a joy that will come in the morning."

Warner said he would raise Haiti's plight with both the finance committees of both FIFA and CONCACAF to "contribute in a way that signals our love, our care and concern."