{"id":644111,"date":"2021-08-14T11:51:36","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=644111"},"modified":"2021-08-14T11:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T15:51:40","slug":"breaking-massive-earthquake-hits-haiti-thousands-feared-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-massive-earthquake-hits-haiti-thousands-feared-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Massive Earthquake Hits Haiti, Thousands Feared Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-massive-earthquake-hits-haiti-thousands-feared-dead%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=644111&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Haiti-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"e12o35pe0 css-1wr5klf\" readability=\"27.402462121212\">\n<p>A major earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday morning as the island nation still struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands back in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The 7.2 magnitude earthquake <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/14\/world\/americas\/haiti-earthquake.html\">reportedly<\/a> struck off the coast of Haiti at a depth of seven miles and was felt hundreds of miles away, according to the United States Geological Survey (USGS).<\/p>\n<p>(Note: The Image above is from the 2010 earthquake.)<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/earthquakes\/eventpage\/us6000f65h\/pager\">USGS<\/a>, which estimated that the number of fatalities was in the thousands, added:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Red alert for shaking-related fatalities. High casualties are probable and the disaster is likely widespread. Past events with this alert level have required a national or international level response.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Orange alert for economic losses. Significant damage is likely. Estimated economic losses are 0-3% GDP of Haiti.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Overall, the population in this region resides in structures that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking, though resistant structures exist. The predominant vulnerable building types are mud wall and adobe block construction.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Recent earthquakes in this area have caused secondary hazards such as landslides that might have contributed to losses.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0240963855422\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">aftermath of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake in Haiti \ud83c\udded\ud83c\uddf9 \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/080yX6P9FJ\">pic.twitter.com\/080yX6P9FJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udfddCARIBBEAN CULTURE \u24e6\ud83c\udfdd\u303d\ufe0f (@westindimade) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/westindimade\/status\/1426539282894934017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>This is a breaking story. Refresh the page for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A major earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday morning as the island nation still struggles to recover from a devastating earthquake that killed hundreds of thousands back in 2010.The 7.2 magnitude &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-644111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}