NEW EARTHQUAKE – Vertieres, Cap Haitïen, Haiti

March 21, 2010
Verttières, Cap Haitïen, Haiti

After torrential rains and several minor earthquakes (originating near Cuba) two people are dead, two trapped, and three injured in Haiti’s second largest city of Cap Haitïen. This quake represents the first structural failure due to an earthquake along Haiti’s Northern coast and draws to light an additional, significant fault line that has the potential to repeat the devastation caused on January 12, 2010 by the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault, further to the South. Local government and emergency-response personnel were quick to arrive on the scene and have been handling this particular catastrophe with professionalism and poise. That withstanding, there are no misconceptions about Cap Haitïen’s under-prepared infrastructure and officials fear the possibility of a much larger quake. In a town now inundated with refugees from Port Au Prince, it remains certain that anything larger than this minor quake may spell certain doom for yet another unprepared populace.

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