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At 08:29:09 EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula of southern 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. [5] [6] Tsunami warnings were briefly issued for the Haitian coast.
The residence of the Catholic bishop lays in ruins after an earthquake in Les Cayes, Haiti, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021. A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, with the epicenter about ...
The damage done by a severe earthquake in Haiti that has left more than 1,200 dead and hundreds missing could be seen in satellite images released on August 15.Maxar Technologies published the ...
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.
The 2021 Haiti earthquake was the largest to strike the country since the 1842 Cap-Haïtien earthquake. More than 138,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed, most of them in Les Cayes and Nippes. 2,248 people were killed, 12,763 others were injured and 329 people remained missing. It is the deadliest earthquake of 2021. [338] 2,248 12,763 16 [339]
The 7.2-magnitude earthquake has left Haiti "on its knees," Prime Minister Ariel Henry said this week as the Civil Protection Agency raised the death toll above 2,000. As the island nation works ...
A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince in 1770. The 1907 Kingston earthquake damaged every building in Kingston, Jamaica. [1] The 2010 magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred near Port-au-Prince along blind thrust faults associated with this fault zone. [5] [6] The 2021 Haiti earthquake (magnitude 7.2) struck Haiti's ...
United States Coast Guard evacuated victims of Haiti’s devastating earthquake on August 15, as the death toll from the disaster rose.At least 1,419 people were confirmed to have died as a result ...