Deadliest Earthquake of 2021 felt in Haiti

On 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula in the Caribbean nation of Haiti on the island of Hispaniola. With more than 8,200 buildings damaged or destroyed, and deaths currently estimated at 1,297. It is currently the deadliest earthquake of 2021.
According to the United States Geological Survey, the earthquake occurred as a result of oblique-reverse faulting on the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone. The fault is a transform plate boundary that separates the Caribbean Plate from the Gonave Microplate.
Earlier, Haiti witnessed another worst earthquake in 2010 that killed some 300,000 people.