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My school on the North Coast had teachers and students running evacuation drills all day in case of another earthquake.

I have heard from ppl that have family in Europe there have been TV programs stating that they believe there will be a quake just as strong as in Haiti if not stronger along the North Coast of the DR....it could be in hours....or years.

That's the thing with earthquakes, they are no where near as easy to predict, track and prepare for as hurricanes for example.

I read the following online, however I was unable to find a source to back up this comment/prediction that is apparently causing panic in Europe for ppl with family down here....

Another question arising from Tuesday's earthquake is whether it presages more damage in Haiti and elsewhere along the fault line in the Dominican Republic or Jamaica .

"It could increase the chances," said Dr. Paul Mann , senior research scientist for the Institute for Geophysics at the Jackson School of Geosciences , University of Texas , and co-author of the study presented at the 2008 earthquake conference. "The rupture in the fault line was only 50 miles long," he said. "The areas to the east and west that did not rupture are under greater loading, greater stress accumulation."

But he, too, can't predict a time — even within 30 or 50 years. Geologists: Haiti earthquake was matter of when, not if - Yahoo! News