Release Date: February 8, 2010 This content is archived. BUFFALO, N.Y. -- In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, University at Buffalo geography students are participating in a global effort to ...
Why Haiti keeps getting hammered by disasters: geography, poverty, poor building standards, bad luck
"It's because they're so vulnerable, any event tips the balance," said Cutter, director of the school's Hazards and Vulnerability Research Institute. "They don't have the kind of resiliency that other ...
Just before 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 13, a magnitude-7 earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti, flattening hundreds of buildings and killing as many as 100,000 people. (Related slideshow: Haiti ...
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