couldn't figure out where i'd read this... found it again - it was in this article
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Originally Posted by Mari
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The quake occurred along the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden fault zone, he added, which runs in an East-West direction along the southern edge of the island of Hispaniola (which includes Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and into the Caribbean Sea for several hundred miles.
Worryingly, the island is riddled with shorter faults that run parallel to the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden. Lin said that geologists are concerned that this evening's quake could trigger additional tremors of magnitude 6.0 or greater along one of those faults in the near future.
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that is ... apart from the aftershocks.
althemore terrifying with only 1 of three hospitals left standing.
~ waves ~