7.2 magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck disconnected the seashore of Haiti connected Saturday, with the epicenter 12 kilometers (7.5 miles) northeast of Saint-Louis du Sud, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

People successful the superior of Port-au-Prince felt the tremor and galore rushed into the streets successful fear, though determination did not look to beryllium harm there.

Naomi Verneus, a 34-year-old nonmigratory of Port-au-Prince, said she was jolted awake by the earthquake and that her furniture was shaking.

“I woke up and didn’t person clip to enactment my shoes on. We lived the 2010 earthquake and each I could bash was run. I aboriginal remembered my 2 kids and my parent were inactive inside. My neighbour went successful and told them to get out. We ran to the street,” Verneus said.

The impoverished country, wherever galore unrecorded successful tenuous circumstances, is susceptible to earthquakes and hurricanes. It was struck by a magnitude 5.9 earthquake successful 2018 that killed much than a twelve people, and a vastly larger magnitude 7.1 quake that damaged overmuch of the superior successful 2010 and killed an estimated 300,000 people.

The National Hurricane Center has forecasted that Tropical Storm Grace volition scope Haiti precocious Monday nighttime oregon aboriginal Tuesday morning.