A major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage. The quake was followed by several aftershocks with magnitudes over 5.0 ...

Photo: First satellite map of the Port-au-Prince area of Haiti acquired on 13 January 2010, following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake and several aftershocks that hit the Caribbean nation on 12 January.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The Haiti earthquake’s aftermath is being documented through multiple ...

The mapping team at InterAction reflect on the earthquake in Haiti on its two year anniversary. We have all seen the statistics: over 1.5 million people displaced and 230,000 lives claimed. The ...

A powerful 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, causing tsunami alerts to be raised for a dozen islands, with other Caribbean nations on high alert due to the potential ...

Using details from historical newspaper accounts and letters, seismologists have learned more about Haiti's 1860 Jour de Pâques (Easter Sunday) earthquake sequence, and how it might have impacted the ...

The first three months of 2010 have been violent ones in the Western Hemisphere, marked by two massive earthquakes in two different areas. The earthquakes in Haiti and Chile have each been widely ...

An earthquake struck Haiti Monday morning, followed by smaller tremors. The Associated Press reports that two people were killed. Numerous others were wounded and several houses have been damaged, Al ...

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing more than 5,021 people in the two countries. The death toll is expected to rise as rescuers working in cold and snow look for ...