Haiti rocked by magnitude 5.5 earthquake
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 rocked elements of Haiti early morning on Tuesday, June 6, inflicting panic and harm to some buildings close to Abricot within the Division of Grand’Anse.
The Haitian Civil Safety stated that the epicenter of the quake was positioned at 18.68 levels north latitude and 74.32 levels west longitude, 4 kilometers (km) north-west of Abricot, 23 km north-west of Jérémie, 180 km northwest of Léogâne (West Division) and 210km west of Port-au-Prince a depth of 10 km.
It stated that whereas there was no report of lack of life, many buildings had been broken in Jérémie and in Sainte Hélène and that the quake had precipitated panic among the many inhabitants.
Tuesday’s quake adopted the 4.2 magnitude earthquake on Sunday in the identical space.
The strongest earthquake in Haiti occurred in 2021 when a tremor with a magnitude of seven.2 rocked the French-speaking CARICOM nation killing greater than 2, 240 individuals.
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