Information About Haiti

Health officials in rural Haiti are investigating a possible disease outbreak that could be responsible for dozens of deaths and a surge in hospital patients, U.N. aid workers said Wednesday.

The Hotel Montana, a four-star resort in Haiti, came crashing down during the country’s massive Jan. 12 earthquake – a surprising collapse, since the hotel had been sturdily built on presumably solid ground.

Steady rains toppled hillsides and turned streets into rivers in the Haitian capital over the weekend, leaving at least 12 people dead and three missing, civil protection officials said Monday.

A new study finds that in addition to the underlying geology, the geometry of local surface features contributed to the temblor’s intensity.

Scientists have found that the Haiti earthquake’s energy spread in an unusual way. It turns out that the topography of the Earth’s surface is just as important as the ground underneath in determining how an earthquake spreads, a study detailed in the Oct. 17 online edition of the journal Nature Geoscience reveals.

Haiti’s brittle housing supply was shattered by the Jan. 12 earthquake, which destroyed an estimated 110,000 homes and apartment buildings. Since then, demand has soared.

Steady rains flooded portions of the Haitian capital over the weekend, turning streets into rivers and leaving at least 12 people dead, civil protection officials said Monday.

Plan to expand industry hampered by poverty-level wages and a suspect business model. Is ‘cut-and-sew’ an economic salvation or worker hell?

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that caused more than 200,000 casualties and devastated Haiti’s economy in January 2010 resulted not from the Enriquillo fault, as previously believed, but from slip on multiple faults as well as primarily on a previously unknown, subsurface fault – according to a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. In addition, because the earthquake did not …

Nine months after a huge earthquake devastated Haiti, destroying 80 percent of schools in and around its capital, teachers and aid workers have hit on a healthy way to get children back to class: serve them a hot meal.