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ModoVincere

01-20-10, 06:50 AM

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34928950/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/
Powerful magnitude 6.1 aftershock hits Haiti
Temblor strikes as U.S. announces plan to send additional ships to area

sad...its just amazingly devastated down there.

Velo Vol

01-20-10, 07:13 AM

Here's a short look back at an earlier earthquake along the Caribbean fault line (http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/113/1?etoc). This month's earthquake could have been worse.

trsidn

01-20-10, 08:01 AM

yikes!

Artkansas

01-20-10, 12:59 PM

And that's just an aftershock.

Whats the saying that any government is just 3 meals away from anarchy? Haiti's now about 20 meals past that.

It's sad.

DannoXYZ

01-22-10, 03:48 PM

So why hasn't there been any reports at all of the Dominican Republic?

ModoVincere

01-22-10, 03:52 PM

So why hasn't there been any reports at all of the Dominican Republic?

I'm no geologist, but I think the DR side of Hispanola is far enough away from the epicenter to have avoided the kind of damaging forces that Haiti took. Also, I think the soil there is more a loose agregate and probably doesn't transmit the forces as well as something like a granite bedrock. I know the granite on the East Coast of the US transmits even minor quakes a long way....back in 2003 a 4.9 in Ft. Payne AL woke me up in ATL. But like I said, its pretty solid rock underneath here, not so in the Carribean. Perhaps a Geologist on board here can comment.