Haiti rattled by 4.7-magnitude aftershock

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Haiti rattled by 4.7-magnitude aftershock, no damage reported
AFP, 25 January 2010, 07:00am
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti was rattled by a 4.7-magnitude aftershock, 12 days after it was devastated by a powerful 7.0 earthquake, the US Geological Survey and local residents have said.

"I felt a shake, it was brief, just a few seconds," Patrice Dumont, a school teacher from the ruined town of Leogane 17 kilometres west of Port-au-Prince, told AFP by telephone.

"I heard a sound like a grumbling, then a drumbeat, as if something wanted to burst from the belly of the earth," he added. It was not immediately clear whether the latest quake caused any damage or casualties.

The new tremor's epicentre was 30 kilometres west of the capital, at a shallow depth of 4.1 kilometres, the USGS said on its website. It struck at 4:51 pm local time, or 2151 GMT.

The Haitian capital on January 12 was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 150,000 people, with tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands made homeless.

Since the deadly quake, Haiti has suffered at least 50 aftershocks of varying intensity, and the USGS has warned that it could face more, including perhaps another catastrophic hit, over the next month.

 

[SotongMee]

Spare few a prayer if you can. Tough life, tough luck for Haitians.

In Haiti's situation now, no damage report means nothing more left
to damage and to report.

Before the earthquake, poor Haitians are already eating m&d-pies.

Now earthquake so much suffering, people and shocked and got hit by 50aftershocks, still another BIG one may be coming.

Seems no end to the suffering, situation very hellish in Haiti now. Hell on earth.

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Haiti rattled by 4.7-magnitude aftershock, no damage reported
AFP, 25 January 2010, 07:00am
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: Haiti was rattled by a 4.7-magnitude aftershock, 12 days after it was devastated by a powerful 7.0 earthquake, the US Geological Survey and local residents have said.

"I felt a shake, it was brief, just a few seconds," Patrice Dumont, a school teacher from the ruined town of Leogane 17 kilometres west of Port-au-Prince, told AFP by telephone.

"I heard a sound like a grumbling, then a drumbeat, as if something wanted to burst from the belly of the earth," he added. It was not immediately clear whether the latest quake caused any damage or casualties.

The new tremor's epicentre was 30 kilometres west of the capital, at a shallow depth of 4.1 kilometres, the USGS said on its website. It struck at 4:51 pm local time, or 2151 GMT.

The Haitian capital on January 12 was devastated by a 7.0 earthquake that killed more than 150,000 people, with tens of thousands still missing and hundreds of thousands made homeless.

Since the deadly quake, Haiti has suffered at least 50 aftershocks of varying intensity, and the USGS has warned that it could face more, including perhaps another catastrophic hit, over the next month.