On an ordinary Tuesday afternoon, around 5 o’clock on January 12th, 2010, as people got ready to finish a long work day, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake shook Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince with one of history’s most destructive natural calamities. The country, which shares a border with the Dominican Republic on the island of Hispaniola, lies between two large tectonic plates, or the Enriquillo Plantain Garden fault system, located between North America and the Caribbean.  The...

By Hiba Khan