Haiti Earthquake | Powerful Earthquake 7.0 Mag Shook Haiti
A powerful earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale shook Haiti on Tuesday. Haiti is one of the poorest if not the poorest nation in the Americas. Evidently, major public buildings were totally destroyed.
This is a great catastrophe for Haiti and it also has geological implications for many more people than just in Haiti, itself. The last ten years has been a decade of geological action including some of the worst tsunamis ever recorded in the last 200 years.
The quake was the most powerful to hit Haiti since at least 1770, according to USGS records, Mr. Bellini added. “This isn’t normally an earthquake-prone area,” he said.
Within minutes of the original tremor, two aftershocks rolled through the area, measuring 5.9 and 5.5 on the Richter scale.
Eight in ten Haitians live in poverty, according to the CIA World Factbook. The Caribbean nation was hit hard by a series of hurricanes in the past few years, adding to the country’s misery.
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I fell so sympathetic towards our fellow friends and colleaques in Haiti. I understant that an Earthquake is a very devastating powwer of nature and it normaly happen to countries/places that are very near to the plate boundaries, where the movement of plates moves or shift causing a tremendous vibration or shaking of the surounding area as the plate shift to new possitions. Earthquakes are normally unpredictable and uncontrollable, the only way to be safe is from excaping from the places that are prone to earthquakes. In namibia we also experience a minor earthquakes at our northern part of the country that have frightened many people. Livestok, such as chicken, goat, pig, and so on were shoked to and started running away. No dearth or demage was reported apart from the Computers that fell from the desks. This is simple, the power of nature and we can do litle or nothing about it. So lets just pray to God because everything happen in his will.
I fell so sympathetic towards our fellow friends and colleaques in Haiti. I understand that an Earthquake is a very devastating power of nature and it normaly happen to countries/places that are very near to the plate boundaries, where the movement of plates occurs causing a tremendous vibration or shaking of the surounding area as the plate shift to new possitions. Earthquakes are normally unpredictable and uncontrollable, the only way to be safe is from excaping from the places that are prone to earthquakes. In namibia we also experience a minor earthquakes at our northern part of the country that have frightened many people. Livestok, such as chicken, goat, pig, and so on were shoked to and started running away. No dearth or demage was reported apart from the Computers that fell from the desks. This is simple, the power of nature and we can do litle or nothing about it. So lets just pray to God because everything happen in his will.