A major earthquake struck western Haiti on Saturday morning and was felt across the Caribbean, where people fled their homes for fear that buildings might collapse. The magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck eight kilometres from the town of Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, about 150 km west of the capital Port-au-Prince, at a depth of 10 km, the U.S. Geological Survey said. That made the earthquake bigger and more shallow than the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Haiti 11 years ago, killing tens if not hundreds of thousands of people, flattening buildings and leaving many homeless. 'Everyone is really afraid'Naomi Verneus, a 34-year-old resident of Port-au-Prince, said she was jolted awake by the earthquake and that her bed was shaking. The tremors also caused fear west of Haiti, in Cuba.

Source: CBC News August 14, 2021 13:15 UTC