The Haitian government announced on the afternoon of the 14th that the death toll caused by the earthquake has risen to 304, and a large number of people have been injured. The death toll may continue to rise.
The new Prime Minister of Haiti, Ariel Henry, declared a one-month national emergency that morning.
On the morning of the 14th local time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale occurred in the Nipps province in western Haiti.
Subsequently, many aftershocks occurred in Haiti.
Haiti is located on the island of Hispaniola in the northern Caribbean Sea and has a total population of over 10 million.
In January 2010, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake occurred in Haiti, and more than 300,000 people were killed.
Some media reported that because the earthquake caused relatively little damage to the capital, Port-au-Prince, the direct casualties caused by the earthquake will be lower than the 2010 earthquake.
(Headquarters reporter Gao Xue)