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Magnitude

7.0

Date-Time

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 21:53:10 UTC

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 04:53:10 PM at epicenter

Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones

Location

18.457°N, 72.533°W

Depth

13 km (8.1 miles) set by location program

Region

Haiti REGION

Distances

25 km (15 miles) WSW of PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti

130 km (80 miles) E of Les Cayes, Haiti

150 km (95 miles) S of Cap-Haitien, Haiti

1125 km (700 miles) SE of Miami, Florida

Location Uncertainty

horizontal +/- 3.4 km (2.1 miles); depth fixed by location program

Parameters

NST=312, Nph=312, Dmin=143.7 km, Rmss=0.93 sec, Gp= 25°,

M-type=teleseismic moment magnitude (Mw), Version=9

Source

USGS NEIC (WDCS-D)

Event ID

us2010rja6.

Also, it started from the ground and the plates got uneven which caused some of it.

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