High casualties feared as 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes near Haiti
The U.S. Geological Survey said it's likely that casualties are "high" after a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Haiti Saturday morning. The post High casualties feared as 7.2-magnitude earthquake strikes near Haiti appeared first on WISH-TV | Indianapolis News |...
by: AnneClaire Stapleton, CNN
Posted: Aug 14, 2021 / 10:26 AM EST / Updated: Aug 14, 2021 / 10:26 AM EST
(CNN) — The U.S. Geological Survey said it’s apt that casualties are “high” aft a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck adjacent Haiti Saturday morning.
“High casualties are probable and the catastrophe is apt widespread,” according to the USGS.
Haiti’s Civil Protection told CNN determination person been fatalities and damage.
A tsunami menace was issued for the region, the U.S. Tsunami Warning System reported. Waves arsenic precocious arsenic 3 meters (about 10 feet) supra the tide level are imaginable on immoderate of the country’s coast.
The earthquake was astir 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) northeast of Saint-Louis-du-Sud and 13 kilometers deep, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS).
A 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, 2010, near betwixt 220,000 and 300,000 radical dormant and injured hundreds of thousands more.
Haiti is successful the cone of Tropical Storm Grace, and the tempest could person an interaction connected the country from Monday into Tuesday, CNN Meteorologist Haley Brink said.
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