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For the past 10 months, geologists have been investigating a geological fault system on the boundary of the two plates known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden.
Haiti could suffer another earthquake, scientists warn Robin McKie 2010
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At 4: 53: 09 p.m. on Jan. 12, at a point 15 miles southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the Caribbean tectonic plate pushed against the neighboring North American plate along a line known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault system.
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"In Hispaniola, the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the plates are further split into one or two little plate slivers, with a northern boundary near the northern shore of the island and a southern boundary along what is called the Enriquillo fault."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"In Hispaniola, the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic, the plates are further split into one or two little plate slivers, with a northern boundary near the northern shore of the island and a southern boundary along what is called the Enriquillo fault."
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The last catastrophic earthquake to hit Port-au-Prince was in 1770, and with the tectonic plates moving by seven milimetres a year along the so-called Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault,
News24 Top Stories 2010
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At 4: 53: 09 p.m. on Jan. 12, at a point 15 miles southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the Caribbean tectonic plate pushed against the neighboring North American plate along a line known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault system.
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New studies published Sunday point to a previously unmapped "blind" fault as the likely trigger for the catastrophe nine months ago and found no evidence it had eased more than two centuries of increasing seismic strain along the island's major pressure point, which geologists call the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Haiti sits on the boundary of two tectonic plates - the Caribbean plate and the North American plate - creating a system known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault.
Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news 2010
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At 4: 53: 09 p.m. on Jan. 12, at a point 15 miles southwest of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the Caribbean tectonic plate pushed against the neighboring North American plate along a line known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault system.
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Haiti sits on the boundary of two tectonic plates - the Caribbean plate and the North American plate - creating a system known as the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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