Strong 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Haiti; Tsunami Alert Issued
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: an earthquake of 7.2 Magnitude Struck Haiti Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, inviting a tsunami alert and damaged buildings west of the Caribbean Nation. Mowed.
The epicenter of the earthquake was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from the road to the center of Port-au-Prince, the capital densely populated.
The long shock was felt in neighboring countries.
Schools damaged by the earthquake as well as the houses on the southwestern Peninsula of Haiti, according to images of witnesses.
Residents shared images on the social media of the ruins of concrete buildings, including a church in which a ceremony was apparently downstanding Saturday in the southwestern city of the English.
The USGS stated that waves up to three meters (nearly 10 feet) were possible along the coast of Haiti.
“I can confirm that there are dead, but I do not have an exact toll yet,” said Jerry Chandler, Haiti’s civil protection director, “said AFP. “We always collect information.”
He stated that the country’s emergency operations center had been activated and Prime Minister Ariel Henry was directed there.
A magnitude-7.0 Quake in January 2010 has transformed a large part of Port-au-Prince and neighboring cities into dusty ruins, killing more than 200,000 and injuring about 300,000 others.
More than a million and a half-Haitians have been realized homeless, leaving island authorities and the international humanitarian community with a colossal challenge in a country that lacks a land register or construction codes.
