2021 Haiti earthquake

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. 

It had a -deep hypocenter near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes. It happened about  west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. It caused tsunami warnings for the Haitian coast. Over 300 people died and at least 1,800 people were injured. 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.

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2010 Haiti earthquake

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