Haiti Coast

Two hurricanes are forecast to slam into the US Gulf Coast in the coming days, forecasters said Sunday, threatening torrential rain, high winds and flooding across the region.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck just off the northwest coast of Haiti late Saturday, killing at least 11 people and causing damage to buildings in the Caribbean nation, authorities said.

Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease UN peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.

A weakened Hurricane Matthew made landfall Saturday in South Carolina, nearing the end of a four-day rampage that left a trail of death and destruction across the Caribbean and up the southeastern US coast, now swamped by record floods.

The United States marked its first four fatalities from Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm lashed the Florida coast after killing more than 400 people in Haiti, officials said Friday.

Hurricane Matthew killed more than 800 people and left tens of thousands homeless in its rampage through Haiti earlier this week before it lashed Florida on Friday with rain and howling winds and rolled northward up the US Atlantic coast.

Hurricane Matthew barreled toward Florida's east coast Thursday after leaving a trail of destruction in Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Here's what we know about this deadly and extremely dangerous hurricane:

Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach isolated towns on Haiti's southern peninsula and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm lashed at the Bahamas on Wednesday and triggered large-scale evacuations along the US East Coast.

Hurricane Matthew slammed into the southwestern coast of Haiti early Tuesday, unleashing 145 mph winds and torrential rains that threatened to wreak new devastation across a country still reeling from a ruinous earthquake six years ago.

The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade battered Haiti's southwest coast with 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and surging seas that flooded coastal towns on Tuesday, tearing at trees and rooftops before moving on to Cuba.

Tropical Storm Erika threatened Haiti with heavy rain and strong winds on Friday as it swirled across the Caribbean but showed signs of petering out as it headed toward south Florida, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre said.

Twenty-one migrants died after their boat sank off the north coast of Haiti, a senior official said Thursday.

A US marine explorer who thinks that he has found the wreckage of Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, off the coast of Haiti, has said he hopes Spain and Haiti would help in excavation.

A shipwreck off the coast of Haiti may be the remains of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus' flagship from his first voyage to the Americas, according to reports on Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Isaac made landfall on Haiti's southern coast early on Saturday, lashing the impoverished Caribbean nation with driving rain and gale-force winds, US forecasters said.

Two hurricanes are forecast to slam into the US Gulf Coast in the coming days, forecasters said Sunday, threatening torrential rain, high winds and flooding across the region.

A 5.9-magnitude earthquake struck just off the northwest coast of Haiti late Saturday, killing at least 11 people and causing damage to buildings in the Caribbean nation, authorities said.

Foreign medics with orange stretchers and gallons of chlorine are stemming a cholera outbreak on Haiti's hurricane-struck coast but the focus on a disease UN peacekeepers brought here six years ago is slowing the delivery of food and shelter for storm victims.

A weakened Hurricane Matthew made landfall Saturday in South Carolina, nearing the end of a four-day rampage that left a trail of death and destruction across the Caribbean and up the southeastern US coast, now swamped by record floods.

The United States marked its first four fatalities from Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm lashed the Florida coast after killing more than 400 people in Haiti, officials said Friday.

Hurricane Matthew killed more than 800 people and left tens of thousands homeless in its rampage through Haiti earlier this week before it lashed Florida on Friday with rain and howling winds and rolled northward up the US Atlantic coast.

Hurricane Matthew barreled toward Florida's east coast Thursday after leaving a trail of destruction in Haiti, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Here's what we know about this deadly and extremely dangerous hurricane:

Rescue workers in Haiti struggled to reach isolated towns on Haiti's southern peninsula and learn the full extent of the death and destruction caused by Hurricane Matthew as the powerful storm lashed at the Bahamas on Wednesday and triggered large-scale evacuations along the US East Coast.

Hurricane Matthew slammed into the southwestern coast of Haiti early Tuesday, unleashing 145 mph winds and torrential rains that threatened to wreak new devastation across a country still reeling from a ruinous earthquake six years ago.

The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade battered Haiti's southwest coast with 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and surging seas that flooded coastal towns on Tuesday, tearing at trees and rooftops before moving on to Cuba.

Tropical Storm Erika threatened Haiti with heavy rain and strong winds on Friday as it swirled across the Caribbean but showed signs of petering out as it headed toward south Florida, the U.S. National Hurricane Centre said.

Twenty-one migrants died after their boat sank off the north coast of Haiti, a senior official said Thursday.

A US marine explorer who thinks that he has found the wreckage of Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, off the coast of Haiti, has said he hopes Spain and Haiti would help in excavation.

A shipwreck off the coast of Haiti may be the remains of the Santa Maria, Christopher Columbus' flagship from his first voyage to the Americas, according to reports on Tuesday.

Tropical Storm Isaac made landfall on Haiti's southern coast early on Saturday, lashing the impoverished Caribbean nation with driving rain and gale-force winds, US forecasters said.