Some time after I first heard about this, I thought "Okay, Haiti definitely looks devastated, but what about Dominican Republic? Those two countries are on the same island, after all." Then I recently found a map on Wikipedia that showed where the epicenter of the earthquake was, which seemed to be only 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. No wonder there's so much attention on the damage in that city. Especially since many of the structures in that country were already structurally unsafe under normal conditions, based on what I've heard. (I also heard that Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere, which is why those buildings were in such terrible condition even before the earthquake.)