at the boundary between the North American and Caribbean tectonic plate boundary. Severe ground shaking from the 1976 earthquake caused landslides and sediment-laden turbidity currents that can be ...

as stored energy is released.These events are called earthquakes… and their impact can be extreme.The country of Haiti sits very close to the boundary of the Caribbean plate.On the 12th of ...

According to the USGS, "large earthquakes at this location of the plate boundary are not unexpected ... rocked several countries across the Caribbean, leading to an emergency assessment of ...