Earthquakes
Quake leaves Haiti ‘on its knees’ as impatience grows over lack of aid
By Laura Gottesdiener LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) -An earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti had left the...
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Morgues fill to capacity in Haitian town hard-hit by quake
LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) - Bodies lay in the courtyard of one morgue in the southern Haitian city of Les...
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Haiti quake leaves small businesses in ruins, compounding woes
By Laura Gottesdiener LES CAYES (Reuters) - Days before a powerful earthquake struck, Rosemond Clermont paid the $1,554 rent on...
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Haiti quake survivors cry for help as death toll nears 2,000
By Laura Gottesdiener and Ricardo Arduengo LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) -Survivors of the earthquake that killed at least 1,941 people...
Read more‘She is really suffering’: mothers beg aid for children hurt in Haiti quake
By Laura Gottesdiener LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) - Seventeen-month-old Esther Sanon lay on a mat in the overflowing hospital of...
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U.S. has no current plans to deploy military to Haiti -U.S. national security advisor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has no current plans to deploy U.S. military personnel to Haiti after an earthquake...
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Haiti mourners tell of church collapse horror during quake
By Laura Gottesdiener TOIRAC, Haiti (Reuters) - When the ground began to tremble during a church funeral service in the...
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Storm brings floods as Haitians seek help at overloaded hospitals after quake
By Laura Gottesdiener and Ricardo Arduengo LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) -Doctors in Haiti on Monday battled in makeshift tents to...
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Haitians say 2010 quake lessons may have saved lives – but not enough
By Gessika Thomas and Sarah Marsh PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - When the ground shook in Haiti's capital in 2010, Alix Percinthe...
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Haiti quake revives anger over aid response to past disasters
By Laura Gottesdiener and Dave Graham PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) -The earthquake that ravaged Haiti https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/haitians-scramble-rescue-survivors-ruins-major-quake-2021-08-15 on Saturday has revived anger over...
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Explainer: Why does Haiti have earthquakes?
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Almost 1,300 people have been reported killed by a powerful earthquake https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/medics-aid-workers-rush-reach-haiti-quake-zone-before-storm-2021-08-16 that rocked Haiti on Saturday,...
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Haiti hospitals overwhelmed by quake victims as death toll hits 1,297
By Laura Gottesdiener PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's hospitals were swamped on Sunday by thousands of injured residents after a devastating...
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U.N. calls for Haiti ‘humanitarian corridor’ in gang-held areas
By Laura Gottesdiener and Drazen Jorgic PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - A "humanitarian corridor" through Haiti's gang-infested areas should be established so...
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For Haitians, quake reawakens trauma of disaster a decade ago
By Andre Paultre and Kate Chappell PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - When Lydie Jean-Baptiste saw her neighbors running from their homes on...
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Quake kills hundreds in Haiti, worsening Caribbean nation’s plight
By Andre Paultre and Sarah Marsh PORT-AU-PRINCE/HAVANA (Reuters) - At least 304 people died and hundreds were injured after a...
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Haiti’s history of violence and disasters
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti became Latin America and the Caribbean's first independent state of the colonial era and the first...
Read moreEarthquake of magnitude 7.5 strikes South Sandwich Islands region – USGS
(Reuters) -An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 struck the South Sandwich Islands region in the South Atlantic Ocean, the U.S. Geological...
Read moreStrong quake strikes Philippines, no major damage reported
MANILA (Reuters) -A powerful magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck off the Philippines on Thursday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said, as...
Read moreMagnitude 5.8 quake strikes Indonesia’s Mentawai region -EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 struck Indonesia's Mentawai island region on Tuesday, according to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre...
Read moreMagnitude 5.9 earthquake strikes near south coast of Indonesia– EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 struck about 203 km (126 miles)south west of Nabire, Indonesia, the European-Mediterranean Seismological...
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