Earthquake of 5.9 magnitude strikes close to Haiti on Saturday - USGS

Earthquake of 5.9 magnitude strikes close to Haiti on Saturday - USGS
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A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck on Saturday close to the northernmost tip of Haiti, some 12.3 miles (19.9 kilometres), west-northwest of the port of Port-de-Paix, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.

The quake damaged the facade of a church in Plaisance and a house next door collapsed, Frantz Duval, a journalist with the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste, said on Twitter.

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