"It was a catastrophe waiting to happen," Raymond Alcide Joseph told CNN from Washington shortly after a 7.0 earthquake leveled parts of his home country, cutting power and phone lines in the capital ...

Seismologists have known for years that a devastating earthquake was likely to hit Haiti. They just did not ... and it was really just a matter of time before it released all that energy.

On 12th January 2010, Haiti was hit by a powerful earthquake with the epicentre about 25 km from the capital Port-au-Prince. The death toll was well over a 100,000 people, and some estimates put the ...

"Unfortunately, many buildings, especially those constructed before 2010, were not built with ... changes so that when the next earthquake strikes, Haiti will be better prepared to withstand ...

"Unfortunately, many buildings, especially those constructed before 2010, were not built with ... changes so that when the next earthquake strikes, Haiti will be better prepared to withstand ...