What caused the quake
The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that rocked Haiti on Tuesday occurred along a strike-slip fault, the same type as California's San Andreas fault. Pressure had probably been building for centuries.
SOURCE: U.S. Geological Survey; Tim Dixon, University of Miami professor of geology and geophysics; research seismologist Gavin Hayes of USGS/NEIC | The Washington Post - January 14, 2010
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This Story As clock ticks, timing and coordination key for emergency teams Article | The medical relief teams racing to help victims of the earthquake in Haiti are up against a grim biological fact: People trapped and injured are most likely to survive if rescued within 48 hours, and very few people are found alive more than six days after a disaster. This Story The D.C. Embassy of Haiti reacts to massive quake Video | Raymond Joseph, Haitian Ambassador to the United States, speaks to the press Wednesday morning about the 7.0 earthquake that hit the impoverished country on Tuesday afternoon. This Story Digging through the destruction Article | PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI -- Desperate Haitians clawed at the rubble of their ruined capital for a second day Thursday, retrieving their dead and rescuing the living, as an international armada of ships and aircraft struggled to provide food, water, medicine and shelter. |
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