Today morning there was an earthquake of 6.1 magnitude in Haiti. This earthquake was the aftershock of last week's major 7.0 earthquake which effected everyone in the country.
"Aftershocks are earthquakes," said Carrieann Bedwell, geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC). "When there's a large earthquake some like to say aftershocks occur because of a readjusting of the fault itself; it continually readjusts because it did have such a large energy release," Bedwell said.
Most aftershocks of major earthquakes are felt around 24-48 hours of the major earthquake. Infact, "even aftershocks are unpredictable," Bedwell had said to LiveScience. "We can predict that they are going to happen, but in terms of getting time and magnitude, that is unpredictable."
The shake was widel felt. It was even felt as far away as Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. However, it wasn't as strong as the earthwuake Haiti recieved last week, which was ten times stronger.
Earthquakes sound serious, especially if it's at a high magnitude. I, personally haven't experienced one, but considering how almost half the world is trying there best to help the Haitians. I think it's great that people around the world are helping. This promotes world peace. I also hope that Haiti, its people and as a country, will recover as soon as possible.
