quakes

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck a country whose buildings were barely built to engineering standards and were hopelessly fragile in the grip of such a strong quake.

Haiti has no national building code, and many structures may not have been sound to begin with.

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People in North Texas worry about tornadoes, not earthquakes. That's not the case in Cleburne, just south of Fort Worth.

So far this month, they have had six quakes; some wonder if they're related to drilling of a recently discovered natural gas deposit.

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