What caused the quake

As clock ticks, timing and coordination key for emergency teams
Article | The medical relief teams racing to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti are up against a grim biological fact: People trapped and injured are most likely to survive if rescued within 48 hours, and very few people are found alive more than six days after a disaster.

The D.C. Embassy of Haiti reacts to massive quake
Video | Raymond Joseph, Haitian Ambassador to the United States, speaks to the press Wednesday morning about the 7.0 earthquake that hit the impoverished country on Tuesday afternoon.

Digging through the destruction
Article | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Desperate Haitians clawed at the rubble of their ruined capital for a second day Thursday, retrieving their dead and rescuing the living, as an international armada of ships and aircraft struggled to provide food, water, medicine and shelter.