Haiti earthquake causes several deaths, ‘enormous damage’: PMMagnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes western Haiti, causing loss of life and damage in various parts of the country.
The Haitian prime minister has declared a state of emergency after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck the country’s southwest, causing several deaths and reducing buildings to rubble in the latest crisis to hit the Caribbean nation.
The earthquake struck on Saturday morning 12km (7.4 miles) northeast of Saint-Louis du Sud, on Haiti’s southern Tiburon Peninsula, at a shallow depth of 10km (6.2 miles), the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/1 ... tern-haitiMagnitude 7.2 quake rocks Haiti, dozens killedPORT-AU-PRINCE/HAVANA, Aug 14 (Reuters) - A major earthquake killed at least 29 people in southwestern Haiti on Saturday, reducing churches, hotels and homes to rubble in the latest tragedy to hit the impoverished Caribbean nation already mired in humanitarian and political crises.
The 7.2-magnitude quake, which was followed by a series of aftershocks, struck 8 km (5 miles) from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, about 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince, at a depth of 10 km, the USGS said.
That made the temblor which was felt as far away as Cuba and Jamaica potentially bigger and shallower than the magnitude 7 earthquake 11 years ago that killed tens of thousands in the poorest nation in the Americas.
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