Overview:
A shallow magnitude 4.1 earthquake struck southeast of Port-au-Prince on Aug. 4, adopted by a sequence of minor tremors in surrounding areas by the following morning.
NEW YORK — A magnitude 4.1 earthquake was reported in southeast Haiti and its neighboring commune on Aug. 4 and Aug. 5, in line with Volcano Discovery and native monitoring companies.
The magnitude 4.1 quake struck at 11:02 p.m. native time, at a depth of 5 kilometers, with the epicenter situated roughly 15 kilometers southeast of Port-au-Prince. In response to preliminary information from RaspberryShake’s citizen-seismograph community, the tremor was felt in a number of cities, together with Pétion-Ville, Croix-des-Bouquets, and Kenscoff.
In Delmas, Port-au-Prince, and so far as Gressier and Thomazeau, residents reported weak to gentle shaking. There have been no speedy experiences of accidents or vital injury, although objects have been knocked off cabinets in some houses.
Different cities or cities close to the epicenter the place the quake may need been felt as very weak shaking embody Léogâne, situated 45 kilometers from the epicenter, and Petit-Goave, 70 kilometers away.
Engineer Claude Preptit, the nation’s Common Director of the Bureau of Mines, Vitality and Pure Sources, stated on native Radio Caraïbes that within the final 48 hours, 12 tremors have been recorded between the night of Aug. 4 and the morning of Aug. 5 in lots of areas abd the most recent within the areas of Laboule, La Plaine, and Fonds Parisien.
Residents in components of Croix-des-Bouquets, North of Port-au-Prince, reported feeling shaking round 10 p.m. on Aug. 4, and the newest tremor was recorded in Laboule on the morning of Aug. 5.
A separate magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck off the southeast coast of the Dominican Republic early Tuesday, jolting residents in that nation in addition to in neighboring Puerto Rico, in line with regional monitoring companies. No main injury was reported.
Haiti shares the island with the Dominican Republic and sits on the convergence of the North American and Caribbean tectonic plates—an space liable to frequent seismic exercise.
In August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southern Haiti, killing greater than 2,000 individuals.
Preptit stated the current tremors have been concentrated in a recognized fault zone—a part of the identical system concerned within the catastrophic 7.0 earthquake of January 2010 that devastated Port-au-Prince and killed a whole lot of 1000’s. Nevertheless, he cautioned in opposition to drawing direct comparisons to the 2010 disaster and the August 2021 earthquake that struck the South, significantly in Les Cayes, the place the same cluster of tremors had been recorded over the previous yr.