1946
8.1-magnitude quake killed 1,790 people. Centred in the Dominican Republic.

Ensure a strip of land 30m-40m wide is kept clear of buildings on both sides of the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault.

There aren’t any building codes as we would recognise them.

There is no point rebuilding if people aren’t accountable and they don’t build to the right standards.

Haiti’s army was dissolved in 1994.

There is an acute shortage of drinking water in areas affected by the earthquake.

Haiti from the mid-1700s…has been a microcosm of virtually every development problem.

Expensive measures are beyond the means of Haiti, one of the world’s poorest nations