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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – An earthquake struck Saturday in Haiti with 15 dead, 300 wounded and 40 homes destroyed, Jerry Chandler, director of the country's civil protection agency, said on Monday.
People injured in the earthquake that struck northern Haiti on Saturday night slept in a tent in Port-de-Paix, Haiti, on October 7, 2018. REUTERS / Ricardo Rojas
Chandler was speaking at a press conference to discuss the human cost of the relatively shallow magnitude 5.9 earthquake that hit the northern part of the impoverished country on Saturday.
The quake provoked widespread panic in the north and was one of the most violent to shake Haiti since the magnitude 7 earthquake struck the capital Port-au-Prince in 2010. This earthquake killed tens of thousands of people. people.
Sunday afternoon, a 5.2 magnitude aftershock sent people rushing down the street to Port-de-Paix, the coastal city that was hardest hit by Saturday's earthquake.
Report by Cheslie Jean Baptiste; Edited by Nick Zieminski
