A 7.2 magnitude earthquake has struck western Haiti, the US Geological Survey mentioned, prompting a tsunami alert and damaging buildings within the disaster-plagued Caribbean nation.
The epicentre of the quake on Saturday was about 160km (100 miles) by highway from central Port-au-Prince, the densely populated capital, at a depth of 10km, the USGS mentioned.
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