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Time: 'Scientists - Why Haiti should move its capital'
"If this were a typical earthquake, the risk of future incidents would decline over the next few months," says Tim Dixon, a geology and geophysics professor at Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science. "The stress would be relieved, and we could all go back to sleep for another 250 years, but that's not the case here — our findings suggest another shoe has to drop.
"We feel we have enough knowledge gathered now to recommend that [Haiti] should rebuild critical infrastructure farther to the north, out of harm's way," he added.
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