14 August 2021 magnitude 7.2 Mw earthquake From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At 08:29:09 EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit the Tiburon Peninsula in Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.[1]
It had a 10-kilometre (6.2 mi; 5.4 nmi)-deep hypocenter near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes. It happened about 150 kilometres (93 mi; 81 nmi) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince.[2][3] It caused tsunami warnings for the Haitian coast. Over 300 people died and at least 1,800 people were injured.[4] It is the deadliest earthquake of 2021.
Prime Minister Ariel Henry declared a state of emergency because of the large number of deaths and the severe damage.[5]
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