Tropical Storm Grace rolled across Haiti on Tuesday, bringing drenching rain just days after a powerful earthquake devastated the region.
A massive magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit Haiti, leaving buildings crumbled and people rushing in fear from their homes into the streets.on Tuesday, pounding the region with drenching rains just days after a powerful earthquake devastated a swath of the island nation's so-called southwestern"claw."
But Maes said UNICEF was able reach affected areas with medical supplies, delivering medical kits to three hospitals in Les Cayes – including gloves, painkillers, antibiotics and syringes to treat 30,000 earthquake victims for three months. "It was a little surreal when I heard there was another earthquake," Keen told USA TODAY."But I remember experts saying back then that it would happen again, that it was on a fault line."
The 2010 quake was centered much closer to the capital than Saturday's temblor. Keen says it's a four-hour drive to Les Cayes on a good day, and the damaged roads will make the trip even longer.
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