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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ac2000" data-source="post: 6397766" data-attributes="member: 132852">Scientists who detected worrisome signs of growing stresses in the fault that unleashed this week's devastating earthquake in Haiti said Thursday they warned officials there two years ago that the country was ripe for a major earthquake. Their sobering findings, presented during a geological conference in March 2008 and at meetings two months later, showed that the fault was capable of causing a 7.2-magnitude earthquake - slightly stronger than Tuesday's 7.0 quake that rocked the impoverished country.   Though Haitian officials listened intently to the research, the nearly two years between the presentation and the devastating quake was not enough time for Haiti to have done much to have prevented the massive destruction. .......<img src="http://i48.tinypic.com/2dkjo89.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Eric Calais presented findings in May 2008 to Haitian officials of his research suggesting that based on GPS measurements along the fault that runs through Haiti that it held the potential for a 7.2 magnitude quake. More details<a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100115/science/science_us_haiti_earthquake_warning" target="_blank">http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100115/science/science_us_haiti_earthquake_warning</a></blockquote>

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