PORT-AU-PRINCE: Even as hopes faded of finding more survivors of Haiti's devastating earthquake, 16-year-old Darlene Etienne was dragged late on Wednesday from the ruins after 15 days buried alive.

Around 135 people are known to have been saved from the rubble after the January 12 quake, in which around 170,000 people were killed. Here are some notable cases:

-- Jan 18: The German co-owner of the capital's Hotel Montana, Nadine Cardoso-Riedl, 62, is saved six days after the quake thanks to a cellphone SMS that she managed to send. She is dehydrated but unhurt.

-- Jan 19: Elisabeth, a 23-day-old baby, is rescued from the ruins of a house in the devastated southern town of Jacmel after spending seven days trapped with nothing to eat or drink. Her condition is satisfactory.

On the same day 70-year-old Anna Zizi sings as Mexican firemen pull her from the ruins of Port-au-Prince cathedral. Her rescuers had been able to feed her water through a tube.

-- Jan 20: Neighbors dig an 11-year-old girl, Mendji Bahina Sanon, from the ruins of her house in Port-au-Prince. "Mama is not in the hole, don't leave me Mama," she said later in hospital as her mother tried to calm her nightmares.

-- Jan 22: An 84-year-old woman, Maria Carida Roman, is saved by friends and family who heard her faint cries from the ruins of her house in the capital. She is badly dehydrated, her chest is crushed and she has maggots on her body, doctors say, and is transferred to a US hospital ship anchored off the Haitian coast.

-- Jan 22: Hours later Emmanuel Buso, 22, is rescued from ruins near the presidential palace by a team of Israeli military rescuers. He survived by drinking his own urine.

-- Jan 23: Wismond Exantus, 25, is saved from the wreckage of the shop where he worked in Port-au-Prince after surviving 11 days by drinking Coca-Cola and eating snacks. French, US and Greek teams rescue him.

-- Jan 26: A 31-year-old Haitian man is pulled from the rubble by the US army with facial injuries and a broken leg after being buried for 12 days after an aftershock.

-- Jan 27: 16-year-old Darlene Etienne is dragged from the wreckage after 15 days buried alive. A French search team pulled the desperately dehydrated girl from a collapsed building after neighbors heard a faint voice in the rubble.