we have fox team coverage. alex hogan is standing by with reaction from a haitian community in new york city. fox weather meteorologist adam klotz is live, but we first go to ryan chilcote live with what we know so far about that earthquake. ryan. reporter: hi, arthel. well, haiti just a country that can t catch a break, can it? this earthquake, as you said, had a mag magnitude of 7.2. that s a big quake. it occurred about 5 miles off the haitian coastline, about 90 miles from the capital of haiti. and at a depth of about 10,000 meters, that s 6 miles beneath the surface. that is actually a relatively hallow depth for an earthquake like this. and when you have an earthquake like this, two immediate concerns. the first, that you could have a tsunami at a depth like that. now, the u.s. did issue a tsunami warning but then lifted that, and anecdotal local reports we have is that there was some coastal flooding in at least one town, but then the water appears to have retreated,
and shallower seven.zero that devastated haiti 11 years ago it is stronger but 6 miles down. not as many predicted to be killed that there is death and devastation on an island and now fox news coverage on reaction from the haitian community and then on the tropical storms that are threatening the region but first let s go to the latest with the disaster in haiti. that struck off the haitian coast 6 miles beneath the surface we were talking about that debt very important. what you need to look out for is especially in what is relatively shallow water believe it or not at 10000 meters is the possibility of a tsunami the united states did issue a tsunami warning almost immediately but then lifted it. the reports on the ground suggest that while some coastal area was flooded it did appear to retreat so good news on that front but the second danger is that what it can do on the island itself a stranger and there things are not quite as good it was felt in the capital in fact ma
stunning, surreal images of building after building after building just pancaked and the number of casualties, tens of thousands and you really got a sense for a damage that the quake like this did in 2010, it was a 7.0, and now this, a 7.2. already, i have reached out to some contacts that i have in the capital, port-au-prince. they say it doesn t appear it was damaged excessively. greta van susteren was a reporter in the wake of 2010, set up a children s home there and i texted her immediately, is the home okay? she says that things are doing well, but obviously, to the west, 125 kilometers west as you can see on our map, a different story. we re hoping that there s no sort of repercussions here with the tsunami or anything of that sort. ryan has everything we need so far. can you bring us up to speed? yeah, absolutely. haiti a country that can t catch a break. this quake had a magnitude of 7.2, it occurred five miles off the haitian coastline, about 90 miles from the c