[Godzilla]

"There's a whole bunch of things working against Haiti. One is the hurricane track. The second is tectonics. Then you have the environmental degradation and the poverty," he said.

This clown has the factors all bassackwards. There are a lot of placed in tectonically active and hurricane prone areas that are not the cesspools Haiti is.

The primary cause is a hyper corrupt and incompetent gov't more willing to take payoffs than to cut and past building code standards well established in the rest of the civilized world. They don't give a rats rear end about the people, only their desires.

[dfwgator]

Exactly. The fact is, a 7.0 earthquake in most of the world, doesn’t do that much damage, because of building codes.

[DuncanWaring]

One is the hurricane track. The second is tectonics.

You could probably say the same of Japan.

Plus, "Burned to the ground, and nuked twice 65 years ago".

They don't seem to be in the same condition as Haiti.