Earthquake: Japan's difference over Haiti
The contrast with Haiti where infrastructure was so crude and here where it is so sophisticated, is acute. The death toll will reflect it.
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Cameraman Stuart Webb explains how it felt to cover the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake for Channel 4 News. You may find some of his descriptions upsetting.
Haiti earthquake: devastation on a massive scale awaits, but getting there is still proving difficult, blogs Sarah Smith.
As rescue teams begin searching the rubble after a massive earthquake in Haiti, Julie Ryan from the International Rescue Corps tells Channel 4 News what the key phases are in the hunt for survivors.
Haiti’s president warns the scale of suffering is “unimaginable” and says thousands of people could be dead as a 7.0-magnitude earthquake quake devastates the country’s capital.
In Haiti, almost 1,300 people are now confirmed to have died in Saturday’s earthquake. Thousands more are injured or homeless.
UN soldiers are thought to have inadvertently started a cholera epidemic in the poverty-stricken island. Channel 4 News reports from the beleaguered country – four years after the earthquake.
On 12 January 2010, Haiti – one of the world’s poorest nations – suffered a catastrophic earthquake affecting an estimated 3 million people. Four years on, the Caribbean country is still suffering.
Haiti’s sorrows seem never-ending. Two years after the earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands, Hurricane Sandy devastated the Caribbean nation. And now there are severe food shortages.
The contrast with Haiti where infrastructure was so crude and here where it is so sophisticated, is acute. The death toll will reflect it.
Helen Hawkings, who manages Oxfam’s public health promotion team in Haiti, blogs about her work over the past few days.
When it emerged last year that Oxfam staff were accused of sexually abusing the victims of the Haiti earthquake, 7,000 people cancelled their regular donations to the charity.
Rutland in the Midlands is hit by the UK’s biggest earthquake this year, prompting a wave of jokes about the “earth moving”. But how does this seismic activity compare with other great British quakes?
Tropical Storm Isaac is bearing down on the US after bringing torrential rain to Haiti, where thousands of earthquake victims are still living in tents.
What’s happening in Haiti? Two years after the island nation was left in ruins by a catastrophic earthquake, Channel 4 News reporter Inigo Gilmore returns to find hope finally rising from the rubble.
A 5.7 earthquake hits eastern Turkey, reportedly killing at least 3 people and causing at least 18 buildings to collapse, two weeks after a stronger quake killed over 600 people in the same province.