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Santo Domingo.- Nature.com reports that the latest spate of quakes in Dominican Republic and the magnitude-7 quake that devastated Haiti in January 2010 may herald a prolonged period of heightened seismic activity, a study warns.
It said the Historical records of seismic activity, which analyzed Hispaniola, shared by Haiti and Dominican Republic, are arguably some of the most documented in the region.
“Its long history makes Hispaniola’s strongest spate of seismic activity, a seven-decade-long cluster of four major quakes in the eighteenth century, stand out between two lengthy quiet periods,” the news source said, citing William Bakun, a seismologist with the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California,
“Because the population then was so sparse, however, researchers have been unsure about the strength and location of those shocks,” so Bakun and his colleagues developed a mathematical technique to compare damage reports and other data gathered during the 2010 quake and its aftershocks with historical damage reports to improve those estimates.
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Maybe when all this idiot are out the way we can start fixing the building code and educating the population about quake
If there is a quake then that building will go down and kill how many people.
But you do have a metro.
The Destruction of a nations leadership structure is not a wise hope; for it would leave the populace and those trying to help the nation, from outside, without leaders to facilitate and coordinate relief efforts!
Think, before you wish such non-sense!
"Cutting off the nose to spite the face" will not help the people of the DR.
The HAARP conspiracy theorists have been surprisingly quiet during the current spate of tremors. This confirms there is a conspiracy to silence them - probably by means or chem-trails. The End-Od-Days is near. Select your religious denomination wisely - don 't want to miss out on the next Rapture leaving town just before the big one hits.
It is interesting to read all the comments by the turn-the-other-cheek Christians listing who they would like to be buried in the rubble.
@Roy
It's all Idiots voting for idiots.
This country is full of freaking idiots.
NOW when you find a non-idiot all the idiots think he is an idiot because they don't know any better.
You're allowed to say that if you are Dominican.
I get censured 'cause I'm not.