Illinois Earthquake Details, Feb 10th 2010
An early morning earthquake rattled northern Illinois on Wednesday, shaking an area about 50 miles west-northwest of downtown Chicago, the U.S. Geological Survey said.
The magnitude 4.3 quake hit just before 4 a.m. CT (5 a.m. ET), with an epicenter abou
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A humanitarian mission to aid Haitian earthquake victims turned into a major embarrassment in Puerto Rico on Friday as pictures emerged of doctors drinking, mugging for cameras and brandishing firearms amid the victims' suffering. FULL STORY
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USA TODAY - has posted an interactive map that shows information related to the magnitude-7.0 earthquake in Haiti last week. You can change the different layers of information that overlay a map of Haiti. Some of the information that you can view is the population density, fault lines, shake intensi
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American Red Cross Disaster Response Summary
Haiti Earthquake Disaster Summary Report
January 13, 2010 – 2:00 P.M. EST
Haiti Earthquake Disaster Summary OPERATIONS
On the evening of January 12, a series of earthquakes with magnitude 6.5 to 7.3 struck Haiti in the highly populated area of Dep
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The January 12 2010 Haiti earthquake occurred in the boundary region separating the Caribbean plate and the North America plate. Looking for the scientific background on the Haiti M7. USA TODAY has posted an interactive map that shows information related to the 7. 0 magnitude earthquake struck the c
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