A very bad memory.
A magnitude 7.2 earthquake shook Haiti on Saturday morning, around 8:30 a.m. local time (2:30 p.m. in France) according to the American Center for Seismology.
The long shock was felt throughout the country and material damage has already been recorded in several cities, according to images of witnesses in the southwestern peninsula of the island, published on social networks.
According to the director of local civil protection, victims are to be deplored.
An event which obviously recalls another, terrible.
On January 12, 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale devastated Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, and several provincial towns.
More than 200,000 people were killed and more than 300,000 others were injured in the disaster that left 1.5 million people homeless.
Already visible damage
After the earthquake on Saturday, religious buildings, schools and homes were damaged in the earthquake, according to residents of the affected area.
On videos shared online, residents filmed the ruins of various concrete buildings including a church in which a ceremony was apparently underway in the town of Les Anglais, 200 km southwest of Port-au-Prince.
In addition, as is always the case when an earthquake occurs in this part of the world, a tsunami warning was triggered immediately.