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Which tectonic plates caused the Haitian earthquake of January 2010?
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On a global tectonic scale, movement of the Caribbean and the North American plates were responsible for the Haitian earthquake.
However on a subregional tectonic scale, there is a smaller plate that separates the Caribbean and the North American plates known as the Gonave micro-plate on which Haiti is partly situated (on the eastern end).
The Gonave micro-plate is bounded to the north by the Oriente and Septentrional Fracture Zones and to the south by the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault, movement on which caused the magnitude 7 Haitian earthquake on the 12th of January 2010.
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