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There have been two aftershocks since the initial earthquake struck. A magnitude 5.2 event occurred nearly 20 hours after the mainshock, with another magnitude 4.2 event happening about 5 hours later. In the first 8 months of 2018, there were 26 earthquakes between the magnitudes of 2.9 and 4.6 recorded. See also. Haiti portal
Some of the earthquakes in Haiti have been very destructive to the country. The widespread damage and high-number of casualties of events in 2010 and 2021 can be partially blamed on the fact that most of the population in Haiti resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, in which they are made of stone and concrete. [1]
Haiti portal. v. t. e. At 08:29:09 EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. [1] It had a 10-kilometre-deep (6.2 mi) hypocenter near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, approximately 150 kilometres (93 mi) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
The death toll from a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti climbed to 1,297 on Sunday, a day after the powerful temblor turned thousands of structures into rubble and set off franctic rescue efforts ...
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 29 people were killed when a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, just days before a tropical storm is expected to make landfall, and Prime ...
Haiti says the death toll after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the region over the weekend is now up to more than 1,400. Haiti reports nearly 7,000 people were also injured, with tens of ...
1935. 21 October: hurricane in Sud and Sud-Est départements. 2,000 people perished. 1946. Earthquake in the northeast Dominican Republic accompanied by a tsunami in the region of Nagua. Haiti was also affected. 1952. 27 October: earthquake at Anse-à-Veau in Grand'Anse killed 6 and rendered thousands homeless.
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