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" Describe the cause of the 2010 Haitian earthquake. Why did it happen?

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Cause of the earthquake. Haiti lies right on the boundary of the Caribbean and North American plates. There was slippage along a conservative plate boundary that runs through Haiti. On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7 earthquake hit.
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