Preliminary work suggests the quake's further distance from the capital and the mountainous, sparsely inhabited location of the epicenter - where a quake starts on the Earth's surface - could have had an impact, he added. However, the fault system was probably behind three other major earthquakes, occurring in , , and respectively, the USGS says, adding that the first two quakes destroyed Port-au-Prince.
Other quakes are likely to happen in the future. While Barnhart says just Japan, Mexico, and U. Western states have early-warning systems for earthquakes - which can buy just tens of seconds of advance notice - Claude Prepetit, Haiti's chief seismologist, said Haitians behaved differently after Saturday's quake, compared to in Back then, he said, people exposed themselves to more danger by sheltering in buildings while aftershocks continued.
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