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Local January 13, 2012 | 6:14 am
Hispaniola’s fault lines make it prone to quakes, tidal waves
Santo Domingo.- Active geologic faults cross Hispaniola, shared by Dominican Republic and Haiti, give the two nations high probabilities of seismic activity, such as quakes and tsunamis.
Recorded from 2003 to September 2011 were 3,586 telluric movements, of which 1,979 had magnitudes between 2.4 and 5.4.
One of the active important blocks for seismic activity is the country’s no... Read more
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