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MIAMI — The earthquake that left Haiti in ruins and killed up to 300,000 people may not have been the “big one” and almost certainly wasn’t the last one.
New studies published Sunday point to a previously unmapped “blind” fault as the likely trigger for the Jan. 12 catastrophe and found no evidence it had eased more than two centuries of increasing seismic strain along the island’s major pressure point, which geologists call the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone.
If anything, the studies conclude, Haiti faces a heightened risk of repeat quakes along the Enriquillo fault — particularly near the heavily damaged, densely populated capital of Port-au-Prince.
