Haiti earthquake caused by new fault line

[TalkingDog]

Source: Telegraph

The devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti in January was unleashed by a previously undetected fault line – not the well-known one initially blamed, according to an analysis of new data.

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He said the analysis shows that most, if not all, of the geologic movement that caused January's magnitude-7.0 earthquake occurred along the newly uncovered fault, not the well-documented Enriquillo fault.

He said that suggests Haiti's seismic zone is far more complex than scientists had anticipated.

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/haiti/7945642/Haiti-earthquake-caused-by-new-fault-line.html

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Much less than good.

[MrScorpio]

1. Doesn't plate tectonics know that the Earth is only 6,000 years old?

Damned Geology, it'll be the death of us all.

[Gman]

2. Probably some remnant of the Great Flood

or something.

[Orrex]

3. Everybody's so quick to find fault.

Just imagine what a stable, independent state could have done re: local geological surveys.

Pity that Haiti's been getting so royally fucked for centuries.