Originally Posted By: NobodySpecial

It's developed enough to have building codes,

Indeed, and Haiti has no code. It's not merely unenforced: there is no code, and no inspectors.

What I wonder about are things like the 1958 Lituya Bay earthquake & tsunami. Are there populated areas that where the same thing could happen? I'm not sure how one prepares for a 1/3 mile tall tsunami wave.