Six years after devastating Haiti quake, risks still high

Six years after Haiti was devastated by a magnitude-seven earthquake, the government seismologist who predicted it warns little has been done to protect people in the likely event of a repeat disaster, reports Agence France Presse.

Claude Prepetit, the chief seismologist at the Bureau of Mines, says the risk of a major earthquake remains as high today as it was on January 12, 2010. While the poorest country in the Americas has since been studied and carefully mapped by seismologists, authorities have done little to translate what's been learned into practical measures to limit the effects of another quake, he said. "This is where the problem lies," Prepetit said in an interview with AFP. "There has been a construction code in Haiti since 2012, but who is in charge of enforcing it?"