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Quake threat looms over Haiti

Nature volume 467, pages 1018–1019 (2010)Cite this article

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Tectonic strain remains in key fault line, researchers find.

The half-minute of tremors that shook Haiti in January left death and destruction — and lingering questions about when and where another such quake might strike. Some 230,000 people died in the magnitude-7.0 quake, more than twice as many as in any recorded earthquake of similar strength. As the disaster drew aid workers from around the globe, scientists also flocked to the impoverished country to try to understand the quake.

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