"It's because they're so vulnerable, any event tips the balance," said Cutter, director of the school's Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. "They don't have the kind of resiliency that other ...

Just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, flattening hundreds of buildings and killing as many as 100,000 people. (Related slideshow: Haiti ...

Jenny-Carls Joseph dreams of going home. But home is a nightmare of broken concrete and twisted steel that, a year after Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake, has yet to give up his father's body.

On 14th August 2021 a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti in the Caribbean. The plate boundaries around Haiti are complex. The North American Plate lies to the north and the Caribbean Plate to the ...

The magnitude 7.2 earthquake that struck Haiti on Saturday brought a sense of déjà vu— it was the second major quake to hit the island nation in the last 11 years. Haiti's 2010 earthquake, a magnitude ...

Haiti is a lower middle-income country in the Caribbean. On 14th August 2021 a 7.2 earthquake struck the country. The plate boundaries around Haiti are complex. The North American Plate lies to the ...