Chile became one of the countries that experienced multiple earthquakes in the past century. One of the Chile earthquakes that happened in the 1960's became one of the biggest earthquakes that was recorded in history with a magnitude of 9.5 Mw. This earthquake killed 1,655 people. According to wikipedia, from the 1900 until present, Chile had experienced 91 earthquakes, however not all the earthquakes were on a major scale. Most of the epicenter of the earthquakes was miles away from civilization. There were many geological explanations that explain the reason why Chile had this many earthquakes in that period of time.

The website “www.earth.com” explains the reason behind this natural event. One of the reasons was the Nazca plate, a tectonic plate that moves 6.6 cm per year. The Nazca plate oftenly collides with the South American tectonic plate that is located in the Chilean coast. The pressure between these two plates created the earthquake. The earthquake that happened also changed the Chilean landscape. The data that collected also explained that the 2016 earthquake is the strained from the earthquake that happened 56 years ago. In contrast with Chile, Haiti doesn't experience earthquakes as often as Chile, however almost all the earthquakes lead to national scale casualties. According to wikipedia, in the past 100 years, Haiti experienced 6 earthquakes, with 2 earthquakes giving major casualties to the country. The first major earthquake was the 2010 Haiti earthquake, and the other major earthquake was the 2021 earthquakes. The article by www.npr.ordg explains the reason why the Haiti earthquake was so catastrophic.

One of the main reasons is that Haiti is located in a fault line between two huge tectonic plates which is the North American plate and Caribbean plate. The other reason and what caused the 2010 earthquake and 2021 earthquake was the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system. In 2012, scientists were claiming that the 2010 Haitian earthquake made the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system seismically active again, and Haitian expected to face another earthquake in future.As we can see the recent earthquake become the proof that those claims were right.

All the Haitian earthquake was not as  big as the Chilean earthquake form the Richter scale standpoint, however the casualties that occur in Haiti was greater because the epicenter of the earthquake was only 25 km away from the capital city, that’s the reason why the impact of the earthquake was so devastating and it took hundred thousands of Haitian lives.