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.

Earthquakes have been wreaking havoc in Haiti since at least the 18th century, when the city of Port-au-Prince was destroyed twice in 19 years. Saturday’s powerful quake killed hundreds and injured ...

Today’s big news story was Conan O’Brien‘s flip-off to NBC — until the Haiti earthquake. Late in the afternoon at around 5 p.m. EST, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti just outside Port-au-Prince ...

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 ...

When conventional seismometers in Haiti failed before the 2010 quake, cheaper, less sophisticated devices helped seismic researchers fill in the blanks. By Kenneth Chang When a magnitude-7.0 ...