where did the haiti earthquake occur
In the case of the Haiti quake, the epicenter of the quake was only 10 miles (15 km) southwest of the capital Port-au-Prince and just 6.2 miles (10 km) below the Earth's surface, which for earthquakes is very shallow, Blakeman told LiveScience.his is called a subduction zone. Another unfortunate factor in the intensity equation for Haiti is the infrastructure involved. The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake that struck San Francisco just before Game 3 of the 1989 World Series was also about a 7.0-magnitude quake.