tetonic plates
Haiti, Chile, Washington,DC
Two faults slipping past each other caused the earthquake in Haiti. The fault slipping as the Pacific Plate slid under the South American Plate raising the Andes Mountains caused the earthquake in Chile. Or, while both were caused by moving faults, the faults moved for different reasons.
chile quack and haiti quack
Because the earthquakes in Haiti caused the buildings to fall down.
No. HAARP stands for High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program.It has no connection with earthquakes.
Chile is frequently hit by earthquakes - therefore their building codes are much stricter. Their houses are built to withstand devastating earthquakes. Haiti, on the other hand, has had relatively few earthquakes. Their situation reflects the poor housing common to the area, that, while cheaper, is worse in the long run.
The Haiti earthquake in Jan. 12, 2010.The Chile earthquake.The Turkey earthquake.
they just happen earthquakes are caused from the plates under earths surface moving
it affected the people of haiti by the dammage it did, the people it killed, and the emotional dammage it caused the people of haiti
The Chile earthquake at 8.8 was about 100 times stronger than the Haiti earthquake at 6.8. The Richter scale is logarithmic. The difference between the earthquakes is 2.0, which is the logarithm of 100.
Haiti (January 2010), Chile (February 2010) and Indonesia (December 2004) japan (March 2011).
Chile is located in South America on the Pacific coast while Haiti is located on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola in North America. Chile is located to the southwest of Haiti.