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2021 Haiti earthquake sequence (only earthquakes with magnitudes 5.0 or greater) Date and time Location M MMI Ref 2021-08-14 12:29:08 13 km SSE of Petit Trou de Nippes 7.2 VIII [1] 2021-08-14 12:49:33 20 km WNW of Cavaillon 5.2 V [29] 2021-08-14 16:08:03 10 km NW of Baradères 5.1 VII [30] 2021-08-14 18:11:10 12 km NNE of Baradères 5.1 III
A road is damaged by the earthquake in Camp-Perrin, Les Cayes, Haiti, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. The death toll from the magnitude 7.2 earthquake in Haiti soared on Sunday as rescuers raced to find ...
Jerry Chandler, Haiti's director of civil protection, told the AP that the death toll stood at 29 and that teams will be sent to the area for search and rescue missions. 7.2 magnitude earthquake ...
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.
Disaster is "likely widespread" after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck the Sud region of southern Haiti at 8:29 a.m., local time, on Saturday, sending people into the streets as buildings toppled ...
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]
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's hospitals were swamped on Sunday by thousands of injured residents after a devastating earthquake the day before killed at least 1,297 people as authorities ...
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 ...