Dr Baptie said the rumblings that residents felt were consistent with an earthquake of this size.
Marcelin Rose Danie and her family lived in the center of Port-au-Prince when the earthquake struck.
Five months later, the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
When a devastating earthquake struck in 2010, the IRC and many others took immediate action.
On Wednesday, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Honshu, the country's meteorological agency said.
Early Thursday, an earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck off the same coast.
Humanitarian agencies were working with rescue crews to reach people affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
All in all, Japan is widely acknowledged to be one of the most earthquake-prepared nations.
China was helped by the Japanese earthquake-tsunami, which initially resulted in lower prices for crude.
There was a team of firefighters from Italy whose expertise was in earthquake work.
Like an earthquake, the shock waves radiate from Terry and the aftershocks keep on coming.
All of which is very life-affirming when ambulances are being sent to help earthquake victims.
In the case of an earthquake, for instance, the agents bid among themselves to allocate ambulances.
In 1996, a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the city of Kobe, killing over 6, 400 people.
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The earthquake in Gujarat in India in 2001, which was of similar magnitude, killed some 20, 000.
Although on the same fault line, this earthquake was much less powerful than the previous one.
It registered on seismographs as a magnitude-2.1 earthquake and could be felt 50 miles away.
Aggreko agreed to supply power to areas of Japan worst hit by the earthquake and tsunami.
Experts are also debating the cause of the earthquake, notes Taipei's Central News Agency.
In 2010, after the Haiti earthquake, a teenage girl was rescued 15 days after the disaster.
Lorelei shooed them away, and Davis, preoccupied with his emotional earthquake, mercifully didn't see them.
It may also be troubled by unsettling questions about its level of pre-earthquake preparedness.
In 1976, a severe earthquake shook the Philippine island of Mindanao, leaving about 8, 000 people dead.
The earthquake killed approximately 38, 000 schoolchildren and students, as well as 1, 300 teachers and educational staff.
The reactor at Fukushima wasn't designed to withstand a 9.0 earthquake or a 50-foot tsunami.
But the Tohoku earthquake may not deliver any devastating blows to U.S. and Bermuda reinsurance firms.
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Some, who lost power and watched pictures crash to the floor, thought it was an earthquake.
The areas are sparsely populated, and the earthquake was 62 miles beneath the Earth's surface.
An eyewitness told ABC News that many people sought higher ground after the earthquake struck.
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