Building visited by creatives and politicians from around the world set alight by gangs as unrest grips country ...

The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Harold Isaac, a reporter based in Port-au-Prince, about the iconic Hotel Oloffson ...

Understanding Why Haiti's Buildings Collapsed. Published Jan 20, ... when an earthquake hits, a building that has sacrificed structural support for the sake of artistry is bound to collapse.

Haiti's magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck a country whose buildings were barely built to engineering standards and were hopelessly fragile in the grip of such a strong quake.

Firefighters search for survivors inside a collapsed building after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Aug. 15, 2021.

More information: Marc-Ansy Laguerre et al, A numerical study on the seismic retrofit of Haitian reinforced concrete building frames, Earthquake Spectra (2025). DOI: 10.1177/87552930241311975 ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle. As many as one in five Haiti earthquake victims have suffered trauma so great with the multiple shock… ...

Rice University. (2025, March 18). Building a safer future: Strengthen Haiti's earthquake resilience. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 ...

Haiti has made progress after its Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake, such as a seismic surveillance network, active fault and hazard maps and tsunami evacuation routes. But the advances, says one ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti on Saturday, killing at least 304 people and injuring at least 1,800 others as buildings tumbled into rubble. Prime ...

LES CAYES, HAITI - AUGUST 16: A man rides his bike by a collapsed building after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on August 16, 2021 in Corvalion, Les Cayes, Haiti.