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Haiti gets big earthquakes quite rarely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Haiti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Haiti
by BurningFrog 5y ago
Haiti gets big earthquakes quite rarely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Haiti https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Haiti
Before the 2010 disaster, Port-au-Prince had not been hit since 1770.
- Retric 5y agoNormally big earthquakes are extremely rare. In just the last 300 years Port-au-Prince got an 8.0, 7.5, and 7.0 that’s very rapid especially in geologic terms.