"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 ...

For those trapped in rubble after an earthquake, survival depends on many factors, including weather and access to water and ...

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 ...

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, DesRoches said he felt an immediate connection ... "Marc is deeply committed to building a more resilient Haiti, and his passion for earthquake mitigation is both ...

Laura Silsby, the American missionary accused of trying to take nearly three dozen children out of Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake, has been freed from jail by a Haitian court, her ...

Human-rights groups are pushing back against a proposal by Haiti authorities to enlist members of a rogue force into the ...

Not only was he homeless in the poorest nation of the Western Hemisphere, his niece and nephew had died in the earthquake. Gone, too, were his next-door neighbors in Port-au-Prince. “Their house ...

On Thursday, armed gangs burned down the house of former president of the Haitian Senate Simon Dieusel Desras in Saut-d’Eau.

Haitian officials say an airport in the country’s southwest region is ready to receive international flights for the first time.

And the year before, a 16-year-old Haitian girl was rescued from earthquake rubble in Port-Au-Prince after 15 days. What to do during an earthquake The best practices for survival during an ...