PORT-AU-PRINCE, Feb 18 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) — The Haitian Civil Protection Board confirmed that so far no damages have been registered as a consequence of the 5.5 magnitude earthquake that shook Haiti’s northwest in the early hours of Thursday.
The tremor had its epicenter at about 39 kilometers west of Mole Saint Nicolas, commune of the North-West department, at a depth of 29 kilometers, according to the Ayiti Seisme platform, quoted by the Civil Defense.
According to data from the authorities, the telluric movement was perceptible in most of Haiti’s departments, as well as in the neighboring Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica.
Last week three minor earthquakes shook the southern part of the country and caused panic in the city of Jacmel, about 40 kilometers from the capital, where two of the tremors, of 3.5 and 3.3 magnitude on the open Richter scale, had their epicenter.
Haiti is located on the confluence of several tectonic faults, which makes it vulnerable to this type of phenomenon.
In 2022, the Bureau of Mines and Energy reported 1,541 earthquakes of between 0.7 and 5.5 magnitude, the largest of them in Anse à Veu, in the Nippes department, where in 2021 a powerful telluric movement took place, responsible for more than 2,200 deaths. — NNN-PRENSA LATINA
