Why Does Haiti Have So Many Earthquakes Two Dead And Hundreds Homeless After Back To Back Quakes
A pair of powerful back-to-back tremors hit the department of Nippes, on the Tiburon Peninsula, within the space of less than an hour, causing widespread destruction to homes in the area. According to a report from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), a 5.4 magnitude quake struck at 8:20 a.m. local time, closely followed by a slightly heavier 5.6 magnitude quake at 9:06 a.m. A man and a woman, whose names have not been released, died in Fonds-des-Nègres, after a consequent landslide and the collapse of a wall....