He said that he and other colleagues are contemplating sleeping outdoors if there are strong aftershocks. “I thought the whole house was going to fall on top of me,” Mpitabakana told the news agency. In 2010, a 7.0-magnitude quake near the densely populated capital killed at least 200,000 people and caused widespread devastation to buildings.Įric Mpitabakana, a World Food Programme official in Jeremie, capital of the Grand’Anse department, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that things fell around his house as a result of the morning quake. It also hit almost two years after a 7.2-magnitude temblor struck southern Haiti and killed more than 2,200 people, with Les Cayes sustaining the most damage. Officials are still assessing the damage, which has affected over 7,000 families ⤵️ /eIbtkZsluH The earthquake struck as the Caribbean nation has reeled from heavy rainfall and flooding that killed at least 42 people and displaced thousands of people in recent days.Īt least 15 people have been killed and several are still missing after heavy rains sparked widespread flooding and landslides across Haiti. “They are members of the same family and were killed when their house collapsed,” Monquele said. The civil protection agency also counted 28 injured, she said, adding that the search for “other possible casualties” was ongoing. The quake occurred on Tuesday morning in the Grand’Anse department, nearly 300km (186 miles) west of the capital, Port-au-Prince, at a relatively shallow depth of 10km (6 miles), according to the US Geological Survey.Ĭhristine Monquele, head of the civil protection agency in Grand’Anse, told the AFP news agency that three deaths had been recorded so far. A 4.9-magnitude earthquake has struck western Haiti, killing at least three people and injuring more than two dozen others, officials said.
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