298100 Europe Media Monitor (EMM) reads and analyses around 40.000 new news items per day from around 1000 sites worldwide. The text of the items, extracted using EMM's own text extraction algorithm, is indexed using Lucene (see http://lucene.apache.org). Please make sure your area of interest is not already covered by one of the pre-defined categories (alerts). If it is, we kindly ask you to use the feed from that category as this significantly reduces the load on our system. This site is a joint project of DG-JRC and DG-COMM. The information on this site is subject to a disclaimer (see http://europa.eu/geninfo/legal_notices_en.htm). Please acknowledge EMM when (re)using this material https://www.wkbw.com/news/national/magnitude-7-2-earthquake-hits-off-coast-of-haiti-usgs-saysA magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti early Saturday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The quake struck 12 km (7 miles) from the town of Saint-Louis du Sud, at a depth of 10 km, the USGS said. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said there was a tsunami warning after the quake. No fatalities have been reported, according to the USGS.2021-08-14T16:27+0200wkbw-89a49361bb170b468a22faa4893ba2a820210814162700https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2021/08/14/strong-7-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-haiti-usgs/A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, prompting a tsunami alert and damaging buildings in the west of the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation. The epicenter of the quake was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) by road from central Port-au-Prince, the densely populated capital.2021-08-14T16:26+0200tribuneonline-122bcd941b16af0ce4add41c9a37644420210814162600https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/513426/haiti-tsunami-warning-issued-following-72-magnitude-earthquake-in-nippes-department-update-1Event. Although officials at first stated there was no threat of a tsunami, they have subsequently issued warnings stating that tsunami waves are possible along some coasts of Haiti following a magnitude-7.2 earthquake in Nippes Department, on Haiti's Tiburon Peninsula, Aug. 14.2021-08-14T16:25+0200garda-com-60a7abcd430c682500ff63f41f663a1c20210814162500https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/strong-7-2-magnitude-earthquake-strikes-haiti-2510482Port-au-Prince, Haiti: A 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey said, prompting a tsunami alert and damaging buildings in the west of the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation. The epicenter of the quake was about 100 miles (160 kilometers) by road from....2021-08-14T16:22+0200ndtvnews-205be84a207689c2d29006a82673431320210814162200