A 5.7 quake strikes near the Dominican Republic hours after a smaller quake strikes Haiti
The quake was widely felt in Port-au-Prince and beyond. Officials said no damage was reported.
Haiti, which shares the island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic, sits on the intersection of the North American plate and the Caribbean plate.
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In August 2021, a 7.2 quake struck Haiti, killing hundreds of people. It occurred along the same fault zone that unleashed a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake in January 2010 that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
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