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the first adaptation of hellblazer ever filmed for the screen is one of the scenes in the documentary feature film the mindscape of alan moore which was shot in early 2002 the dramatization consists of the john constantine character wandering through london and in the film ending experiencing a mystical epiphany of sorts
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in 2005 constantine was released a feature film that did not use the same title as the comic book in order to avoid confusion with the hellraiser horror franchise the only links to the character of john constantine were the name and a plotline loosely based on the dangerous habits story arc ( hellblazer # 41 46 ) dc comics announced a sequel to the 2005 constantine movie was in the works with producer lorenzo di bonaventura linked to the project he stated i 'd love to do it we want to do a hard r @@ rated version of it we 're going to scale back the size of the movie to try and persuade the studio to go ahead and make a tough version of it in late 2012 director guillermo del toro publicly discussed the notion of creating a film that would star john constantine alongside other dc / vertigo characters such as zatanna swamp thing and more
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in january 2014 it was announced that david goyer and daniel cerone were developing a tv series based on hellblazer and that nbc had ordered a pilot for it a few weeks later it was announced that neil marshall would be directing the pilot the series will follow constantine in his early years defending humanity against dark forces from beyond on february 21 it was announced that welsh actor matt ryan ( whose credits include criminal minds suspect behavior and edward <unk> in assassin 's creed iv black flag ) will play the role of constantine in the tv series pilot on may 8 nbc announced it had officially picked up constantine for the fall 2014 season the show ran for 13 episodes and on may 8 2015 nbc cancelled constantine after the end of its first season it was later announced that the character of constantine as portrayed by ryan would be reappearing in the fourth season of the cw 's arrow
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thq released a video game film tie @@ in of the film entitled constantine the song stranger in the mirror by <unk> the mok is written from constantine 's point of view including a lyrical reference to ' the newcastle incident ' the song venus of the <unk> which first appeared in hellblazer annual # 1 and written by jamie delano was adapted by the rock group <unk>
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fantasy fiction author john shirley is credited in making three hellblazer novels including the novelisation of the constantine film the novel hellblazer war lord features constantine talking about another john constantine in an alternate universe [ who ] has black hair and lives most of his life in los angeles whilst giving a brief summary of the film 's plot
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= curtis woodhouse =
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curtis woodhouse ( born 17 april 1980 ) is an english former professional footballer turned professional boxer and football manager most recently manager of hull united woodhouse played football as a central midfielder and competed as a light @@ welterweight boxer he is the former british light @@ welterweight champion his career in the football league spanned across nine seasons earning four caps for the england under @@ 21 football team woodhouse 's professional boxing record stands at 29 fights 22 wins 13 of which are by knock @@ out and 7 defeats
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he started his footballing career with york city 's centre of excellence before joining sheffield united in november 2001 he was transferred to birmingham city for a fee of £ 1 million before joining rotherham united in january 2003 on loan for five months he then joined peterborough united on a free transfer in october 2003 in may 2005 he joined hull city for £ 25 @@ 000 before joining grimsby town just eight months later in january 2006 he retired at the end of the 2006 07 season
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woodhouse stated that he had fallen out of love with football and decided to turn to professional boxing despite no previous experience in september 2006 he won his first professional boxing match defeating dean marcantonio on points knocking him down twice in the final round his only defeat was by jay morris in april 2009 losing 37 36 on points
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he was convicted of assaulting a police officer and of using threatening abusive or insulting words or behaviour in april 2006 as a result he had his boxing licence suspended for five months by the british boxing board of control despite the incident happening before he was under the bbbofc 's jurisdiction woodhouse returned to football in november 2006 joining rushden & diamonds in the conference national before moving to mansfield town in january 2009 after leaving them he moved to harrogate town at the end of february 2010 he joined sheffield in the northern premier league before the start of the 2011 12 football season he moved up two divisions in the football league system when he joined conference north outfit eastwood town
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= = career = =
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= = = york city and sheffield united = = =
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woodhouse began his football career at york city 's centre of excellence in 1994 before being transferred to sheffield united for an initial compensation fee of £ 2 @@ 200 sheffield united and york city later agreed on an additional £ 15 @@ 000 fee plus a five @@ percentage sell @@ on clause he made his debut for sheffield united at the age of 17 coming on as a 79th @@ minute substitute in a 1 0 home win against crewe alexandra in the first division on 29 november 1997 he made a total of nine first division appearances in the 1997 98 season woodhouse holds the record for being the club 's youngest ever captain aged 19 he earned a call @@ up to the england under @@ 21 team and made his debut in a 2 2 away draw against hungary on 27 april 1999 he went on to earn another three caps against sweden bulgaria and poland in england 's 2000 european under @@ 21 championship qualifying group he made a total of 104 appearances in the football league scoring six goals before being sold to birmingham city for £ 1 million in february 2001
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he made his debut for birmingham city on 3 february 2001 in a 2 1 home victory against norwich city he made 17 appearances for birmingham during the 2000 01 season scoring twice both goals came in the final league match of the season a 2 1 away win against huddersfield town sealing their relegation fate birmingham reached the league cup final however woodhouse was unable to play as he was cup @@ tied having previously played in three league cup games for sheffield united that season he was arrested after the final of the league cup on 25 february 2001 having been charged with affray along with two others after they trashed an indian restaurant and he wielded a chair in a brawl with university students in july 2002 he was sentenced to 120 hours of community service and ordered to pay £ 250 costs birmingham finished fifth in the first division and reached the play @@ offs losing in a penalty shootout in the semi @@ final after the game was drawn 2 2 on aggregate woodhouse played in both semi @@ final matches the following season 2001 02 he made 28 appearances in the first division birmingham reached the play @@ offs again for the fourth consecutive season this time gaining <unk> after beating millwall in the semi @@ final and norwich city in the final this time woodhouse did not play in any of the play @@ off matches he made just three appearances for birmingham city in the premier league before being loaned out to rotherham united in january 2003 grimsby town and brighton & hove albion were also reportedly interested in signing the midfielder during his loan spell at rotherham he turned out 11 times in the first division
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woodhouse signed for peterborough united on 14 october 2003 the same day that he made his debut against torquay united in a 3 2 victory in the football league trophy however he had been training with peterborough a month prior to signing for them whilst he sorted out some problems at birmingham city he went on to captain the side and was later described as captain marvel by manager barry fry in 2003 04 he made 27 appearances in the second division scoring seven goals peterborough finished 18th in the second division two points from relegation with woodhouse being named as peterborough 's player of the season in may 2004 hull city manager peter taylor made a failed £ 100 @@ 000 bid to try and sign the midfielder the following season 2004 05 he made 34 appearances in the newly named league one and scored four goals peterborough suffered relegation after finishing 23rd in the league
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he joined hull city in may 2005 the club he supported as a child on a two @@ year contract for a fee of £ 25 @@ 000 with the potential to rise to £ 150 @@ 000 depending on appearances his debut for hull was as a late substitute in a 2 0 victory against brighton & hove albion on 20 august 2005 though he lacked fitness at the start of the season injuries to keith andrews and ian ashbee gave him the chance of a regular starting place and manager taylor also handed him the team captaincy despite consistent performances by december 2005 he had lost his place and there was speculation that he had fallen out with taylor and wanted to leave this was strongly denied by the player i 'm shocked that people are saying i want to go i 'm very happy here it 's taken me long enough to get to hull so i 'm not going to walk out after a few months or whatever in the following six weeks he made only two brief substitute appearances in five months with the club he played 18 games in the championship without scoring and the strength of hull 's squad was such that he could not be guaranteed regular first @@ team football
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in the january 2006 transfer window he joined grimsby town on a two @@ year deal three years after they first expressed an interest in signing him he made his debut against former club peterborough united in league two on 28 january 2006 in a 2 1 home defeat and scored his first and what turned out to be only goal for the club against mansfield on 14 february 2006 on 26 april 2006 woodhouse said he planned to retire from football at the end of the 2005 06 season and embark on a career as a professional boxer he made 16 appearances in league two helping them to finish fourth place reaching the play @@ offs woodhouse played in both of grimsby 's play @@ off semi @@ final victories over lincoln city setting up the only goal of the game in the first leg he played his last football league game in the play @@ off final at the millennium stadium on 28 may 2006 grimsby were defeated 1 0 in the final by cheltenham town woodhouse gave away a penalty in the 70th minute that was saved by goalkeeper steve mildenhall
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woodhouse had a history of theft robbery and affray and said that he had fallen out of love with football he admitted to have been involved in around 100 street fights he said boxing has always been my first love even as a kid and i love fighting rather than get locked up for it i might as well get paid for it he also stated that he used to spar in the boxing gym after football training without his manager 's knowledge saying a few times at sheffield united neil warnock would drag me in and say i hear you ve been boxing i d be standing there with a big black eye and a fat lip and deny it he trained under former british featherweight champion gary de roux and made his boxing debut on 8 september 2006 at grosvenor house hotel london in a welterweight contest against dean marcantonio despite not having any previous amateur experience the former footballer had lost two stone in weight since his playing days with grimsby town the fight was scheduled for four rounds of two minutes woodhouse knocked his opponent down twice in the final round and won on points
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after only one professional fight woodhouse returned to football in november 2006 signing for rushden & diamonds who were playing in the conference national the highest @@ tier of non @@ league football his boxing licence was suspended by the british boxing board of control following a conviction for assaulting a police officer whilst drunk and of using threatening abusive or insulting words or behaviour in april 2006 when he was still playing for grimsby town and not under the bbbofc 's jurisdiction at the time of the incident he was ordered to pay £ 100 compensation to pc andrew whitehead and £ 350 in costs woodhouse chose to play for rushden & diamonds to fulfil a promise he made to someone who was part of the consortium that took over the irthlingborough based club he made his debut against aldershot town on 25 november 2006 in a 1 0 defeat he made five appearances in the conference national for rushden before deciding to leave to concentrate on his boxing career
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he then returned to rushden on 1 march 2007 and made a further 11 appearances in the conference in the 2006 07 season scoring three goals including a 30 @@ yard long range effort against northwich victoria on 23 april after five months away from boxing woodhouse returned to the ring for his second fight on 15 april defeating duncan cottier on points after four rounds on 1 may he signed a new two @@ year deal with rushden & diamonds he then defeated peter dunn in a bout on 3 june again on points in a contest of four three @@ minute rounds in his fourth fight on 5 december 2007 he defeated craig tomes by way of knock @@ out after just 1 minute and 57 seconds landing a left hook that unsettled tomes as the referee decided his opponent as unfit to continue matt seawright was woodhouse 's next boxing opponent on 16 march 208 he defeated him after seawright felt he was unable to continue after the third round woodhouse finished the 2007 08 football season having played in 29 conference national matches scoring once and receiving two red cards on 17 may woodhouse achieved his sixth straight victory maintaining his undefeated record against dave murray at bramall lane defeating his opponent by knock @@ out in the second round murray managed to beat the standing eight count but the referee deemed him unable to continue after 1 minute and 23 seconds
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after defeating wayne downing in 57 seconds on 21 june 2008 woodhouse stated his intention to retire from football at the end of the 2008 09 season to concentrate on his boxing career he was later appointed as team captain for his final season at the club woodhouse scored a decisive penalty in rushden 's opening game of the 2008 09 season away on 9 august against newly promoted eastbourne borough he was sent off again in the home game against histon on 25 august after receiving two yellow cards in his eighth boxing match woodhouse defeated jimmy beech on points on 20 september he then proceeded to defeat peter dunn on 30 november stopping him 23 seconds in the sixth and final round at <unk> 's consort hotel rotherham
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he signed for mansfield town on 5 january on a contract until the end of the 2008 09 season woodhouse made his debut for mansfield town on 24 january in a conference national match against lewes mansfield won 1 0 matt scriven was woodhouse 's next opponent in the ring on 29 march at bramall lane the fight went the distance of six rounds and woodhouse was given the decision over scriven his first professional loss as a boxer was on 25 april at ulster hall in belfast at the hands of jay morris the fight went the distance but woodhouse lost 37 36 on points over six rounds mansfield manager david holdsworth hoped woodhouse would stay at the club but on 18 june he joined conference north team harrogate town on 27 november he defeated dean hickman by tko in round 6 this was woodhouse 's first fight in the light @@ welterweight division having dropped down from welterweight
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on 13 january 2010 in an interview to the grimsby telegraph woodhouse commented he would definitely consider a move back to former club grimsby town after expressing his dismay at the mariners languishing near the bottom of the league two within danger of being relegated from the football league he commented if they are looking for a central midfielder though they are welcome to give me a call harrogate released him by mutual consent on 25 february three days later he avenged his defeat by jay morris by beating him with a tko in round 3 this gave woodhouse the first title of his boxing career the international masters light @@ welterweight title on 25 april woodhouse defended the title with a 4th round knockout of maurycy gojko who stepped in as a late replacement for steve saville next on 2 july woodhouse knocked out veteran stefy bull in round 9 his next fight was due to be against 2006 commonwealth games gold medallist and former world amateur champion frankie gavin on 18 september but woodhouse pulled out days after the bout was announced in july he moved up the non @@ league football ladder in june 2011 after signing for conference north side eastwood town
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= = managerial career = =
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it was announced on 2 may 2012 that woodhouse was the new manager of northern premier league division one south club sheffield woodhouse resigned in december 2012 after admitting having difficulty to managing a football team as well as being a professional boxer
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on 14 october 2013 woodhouse was announced as the assistant manager at northern premier league division one south club goole with former team mate david holdsworth being appointed manager in january 2014 woodhouse replaced holdsworth as manager following holdsworth 's resignation woodhouse then left goole after some issues with the board and took over at hull united in january 2015
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= = personal life = =
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woodhouse was born in beverley and raised in driffield his father bernard woodhouse died at the age of 51 after he had a fatal stroke unlike other boys who idolised footballers woodhouse stated his heroes were nigel benn and mike tyson he admits to fighting at school and in the streets after being racially abused i went from scrapping in the street and at school to fighting in the boxing ring from the age of 12 i was called a few names due to the colour of my skin but with a quick smack in the mouth they soon backed off he used to visit boothferry park to support hull city before pursuing his career in professional football he has a wife charlotte and two children a son named kyle and a daughter isla
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as of 29 january 2011
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= 2010 haiti earthquake =
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the 2010 haiti earthquake ( french <unk> de 2010 à haïti haitian creole <unk> 12 <unk> 2010 nan <unk> <unk> ) was a catastrophic magnitude 7 @@ 0 mw earthquake with an epicenter near the town of léogâne ( ouest ) approximately 25 kilometres ( 16 mi ) west of port @@ au @@ prince haiti 's capital the earthquake occurred at 16 53 local time ( 21 53 utc ) on tuesday 12 january 2010
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by 24 january at least 52 aftershocks measuring 4 @@ 5 or greater had been recorded an estimated three million people were affected by the quake death toll estimates range from 100 @@ 000 to about 160 @@ 000 to haitian government figures from 220 @@ 000 to 316 @@ 000 that have been widely characterized as deliberately inflated by the haitian government the government of haiti estimated that 250 @@ 000 residences and 30 @@ 000 commercial buildings had collapsed or were severely damaged there has been a history of national debt prejudicial trade policies by other countries and foreign intervention into national affairs that contributed to the pre @@ existing poverty and poor housing conditions that exacerbated the death toll
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the earthquake caused major damage in port @@ au @@ prince jacmel and other settlements in the region notable landmark buildings were significantly damaged or destroyed including the presidential palace the national assembly building the port @@ au @@ prince cathedral and the main jail among those killed were archbishop of port @@ au @@ prince joseph serge miot and opposition leader micha gaillard the headquarters of the united nations stabilization mission in haiti ( minustah ) located in the capital collapsed killing many including the mission 's chief <unk> <unk>
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many countries responded to appeals for humanitarian aid pledging funds and dispatching rescue and medical teams engineers and support personnel communication systems air land and sea transport facilities hospitals and electrical networks had been damaged by the earthquake which hampered rescue and aid efforts confusion over who was in charge air traffic congestion and problems with prioritisation of flights further complicated early relief work port @@ au @@ prince 's morgues were overwhelmed with tens of thousands of bodies these had to be buried in mass graves as rescues tailed off supplies medical care and sanitation became priorities delays in aid distribution led to angry appeals from aid workers and survivors and looting and sporadic violence were observed on 22 january the united nations noted that the emergency phase of the relief operation was drawing to a close and on the following day the haitian government officially called off the search for survivors
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= = background = =
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the island of hispaniola shared by haiti and the dominican republic is seismically active and has a history of destructive earthquakes during haiti 's time as a french colony earthquakes were recorded by french historian moreau de saint @@ méry ( 1750 1819 ) he described damage done by an earthquake in 1751 writing that only one masonry building had not collapsed in port @@ au @@ prince he also wrote that the whole city collapsed in the 1770 port @@ au @@ prince earthquake cap @@ haïtien other towns in the north of haiti and the dominican republic and the sans @@ souci palace were destroyed during an earthquake on 7 may 1842 a magnitude 8 @@ 0 earthquake struck the dominican republic and shook haiti on 4 august 1946 producing a tsunami that killed 1 @@ 790 people and injured many others
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haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere and is ranked 149th of 182 countries on the human development index the australian government 's travel advisory site had previously expressed concerns that haitian emergency services would be unable to cope in the event of a major disaster and the country is considered economically vulnerable by the food and agriculture organization haiti is no stranger to natural disasters in addition to earthquakes it has been struck frequently by tropical cyclones which have caused flooding and widespread damage the most recent cyclones to hit the island before the earthquake were tropical storm fay and hurricanes gustav hanna and ike all in the summer of 2008 causing nearly 800 deaths
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= = geology = =
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the magnitude 7 @@ 0 mw earthquake occurred inland on 12 january 2010 at 16 53 ( utc @@ 05 00 ) approximately 25 km ( 16 mi ) wsw from port @@ au @@ prince at a depth of 13 km ( 8 @@ 1 mi ) on blind thrust faults associated with the enriquillo @@ plantain garden fault system there is no evidence of surface rupture and based on seismological geological and ground deformation data it is thought that the earthquake did not involve significant lateral slip on the main enriquillo fault strong shaking associated with intensity ix on the modified mercalli scale ( mm ) was recorded in port @@ au @@ prince and its suburbs it was also felt in several surrounding countries and regions including cuba ( mm iii in guantánamo ) jamaica ( mm ii in kingston ) venezuela ( mm ii in caracas ) puerto rico ( mm ii iii in san juan ) and the bordering dominican republic ( mm iii in santo domingo ) according to estimates from the united states geological survey approximately 3 @@ 5 million people lived in the area that experienced shaking intensity of mm vii to x a range that can cause moderate to very heavy damage even to earthquake @@ resistant structures shaking damage was more severe than for other quakes of similar magnitude due to the shallow depth of the quake
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the quake occurred in the vicinity of the northern boundary where the caribbean tectonic plate shifts eastwards by about 20 mm ( 0 @@ 79 in ) per year in relation to the north american plate the strike @@ slip fault system in the region has two branches in haiti the septentrional @@ oriente fault in the north and the enriquillo @@ plantain garden fault in the south both its location and focal mechanism suggested that the january 2010 quake was caused by a rupture of the enriquillo @@ plantain garden fault which had been locked for 250 years gathering stress however a study published in may 2010 suggested that the rupture process may have involved slip on multiple blind thrust faults with only minor deep lateral slip along or near the main enriquillo plantain garden fault zone suggesting that the event only partially relieved centuries of accumulated left @@ lateral strain on a small part of the plate @@ boundary system the rupture was roughly 65 km ( 40 mi ) long with mean slip of 1 @@ 8 metres ( 5 ft 11 in ) preliminary analysis of the slip distribution found amplitudes of up to about 4 m ( 13 ft ) using ground motion records from all over the world
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a 2007 earthquake hazard study by c <unk> and m wiggins @@ grandison noted that the enriquillo @@ plantain garden fault zone could be at the end of its seismic cycle and concluded that a worst @@ case forecast would involve a 7 @@ 2 mw earthquake similar in size to the 1692 jamaica earthquake paul mann and a group including the 2006 study team presented a hazard assessment of the enriquillo @@ plantain garden fault system to the 18th caribbean geologic conference in march 2008 noting the large strain the team recommended high priority historical geologic rupture studies as the fault was fully locked and had recorded few earthquakes in the preceding 40 years an article published in haiti 's le matin newspaper in september 2008 cited comments by geologist patrick charles to the effect that there was a high risk of major seismic activity in port @@ au @@ prince
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the united states geological survey ( usgs ) recorded eight aftershocks in the two hours after the main earthquake with magnitudes between 4 @@ 3 and 5 @@ 9 within the first nine hours 32 aftershocks of magnitude 4 @@ 2 or greater were recorded 12 of which measured magnitude 5 @@ 0 or greater and on 24 january usgs reported that there had been 52 aftershocks measuring 4 @@ 5 or greater since 12 january quake
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on 20 january at 06 03 local time ( 11 03 utc ) the strongest aftershock since the earthquake measuring magnitude 5 @@ 9 mw struck haiti usgs reported its epicenter was about 56 km ( 35 mi ) wsw of port @@ au @@ prince which would place it almost exactly under the coastal town of petit @@ goâve a un representative reported that the aftershock collapsed seven buildings in the town according to staff of the international committee of the red cross which had reached petit @@ goâve for the first time the day before the aftershock the town was estimated to have lost 15 percent of its buildings and was suffering the same shortages of supplies and medical care as the capital workers from the charity save the children reported hearing already weakened structures collapsing in port @@ au @@ prince but most sources reported no further significant damage to infrastructure in the city further casualties are thought to have been minimal since people had been sleeping in the open there are concerns that 12 january earthquake could be the beginning of a new long @@ term sequence the whole region is fearful historical accounts although not precise suggest that there has been a sequence of quakes progressing westwards along the fault starting with an earthquake in the dominican republic in 1751
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