A magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked Haiti on Saturday morning at around 8:30 a.m. local time (12:30 p.m. GMT) according to the American Seismology Center.
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.
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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 on Saturday morning in the town of Les Anglais, 200 km southwest of Port-au- Prince.
On January 12, 2010, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7 on the Richter scale devastated 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.
