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Haiti Still in Ruins One Year After Earthquake

By: Mary Rose | 2011-01-13 | Social issues
Haiti Presidential Palace is still crumbled walls, Port-au-Prince- the city to more than 1million people still stays in sprawl rubble and cluttered tents. Haiti has been so devastated after one year the threatening earthquake caused the death to more than 300,000 people. Facing a great deal of hardships after the the earthquake's destruction including disease exposures, massive displacement, demolished infrastructure, the Haiti government and the international humanitarian community and locals have taken it into action. Despite wide mobilization and great efforts among thousands of aid agencies, missionary groups, and public agencies for Haiti's recovery, the country has caught series of problems and big challenges for the upcoming years. Below are the updated images of Haiti one year after the serious earthquake on January 12, 2010, raising the alarm about the reconstruction conditions. read more

Global Warming & Haiti Earthquake

By: Ernie Fitzpatrick | 2010-01-22 | Nature
What in the world is going on with global warming? Is there or isn't there, and if so why is so much of the planet now so cold? read more

Haiti Cholera

By: belinda toland | 2010-11-26 | Journalism
natural disaster always bring something bad, there is another disaster happened in the world. Hope more people in the world can do some help for them, Haiti. read more

Haiti attacked by powerful earthquake

By: Mary Rose | 2010-03-11 | Nature
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook Haiti on Tuesday, causing several buildings to collapse in the poorest nation of the Western hemisphere< read more

Haiti Earthquake Damage

By: Andrew Weber | 2010-01-27 | News and society
The earthquake has strike Haiti, the capital city, Port-Au-Prince on Tuesday, causing thousand of death but the death toll is yet to be known because many missing bodies are yet to be found. read more

After The Earthquake: Can There Be Shipping Haiti?

By: Rebecca Glessner | 2011-10-22 | Transportation and Logistics
The earthquake that shook Haiti last January 12, 2010 had devastated more or less 3 million people. The quake also damaged some infrastructure, houses and main roads. read more

Haiti - Disaster and Opportunity

By: | 2010-04-14 | International studies
Much attention has been focused on the recent disastrous earthquake in Haiti. While this is certainly a newsworthy story, there is another one that has not been as widely publicized but that is newsworthy as well, and it is a more positive one. read more

Challenge Coin Created to Mark The United Nations’ Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts

By: Eric Perez | 2011-03-09 | Causes and organizations
After the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti a little over a year ago, the UN put teams of workers in place to help the country recover. We recently had the honor of creating a custom challenge coin that commemorates the relief and stabilization mission that is still underway in the country. This coin was presented to those who are going above and beyond the call of duty to repair and read more

Oklahoma Earthquake

By: Caterer | 2011-12-04 | Environment
Oklahoma recently experienced earthquakes of moderate intensity. read more

How Can We Prevent the Next Big Haiti Earthquake?

By: Glenford Robinson | 2010-02-18 | Nature
The Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010 was devastating, but history tells us that there could be more big ones in years to come. Port-Au-Prince sits exactly in the epicenter or hotspot of earthquake read more

Earthquake in Haiti Island Feared Citizens

By: JACQUELINE CHARLES, CAROL ROSENBERG AND TRENTON DANIEL | 2010-01-16 | Society
On Tuesday afternoon, a 7.0 earthquake hit Haiti Island. The earthquake happened in Petionville which is a suburb some 10 miles from Haiti capital Port-au-Prince. It damaged the island and isolated mo read more

Pictures of Haiti’s 7.0 Magnitude Earthquake Win Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photograph

By: Mary Rose | 2011-04-22 | Journalism
The Pulitzer Prize for breaking-news photography belongs to a trio of Washington Post photographers including Carol Guzy, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti, who captured the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti over months. Guzy visited Port-au-Prince 24 hours after the 7.0 magnitude quake hit this country and thousands of Haitians asked for help beneath rubble. Kahn traveled Haiti over the ensuing months as the unrest and cholera epidemic swept out. Carioti arrived in August to document the continuing tragedy. The Haiti’s 2010 disastrous earthquake killed 316,000 people, injured 300,000 and made 1,000,000 homeless. Besides it is estimated that around 30,000 commercial buildings had collapsed. read more

one year after earthquake haiti still in ruins