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By Andre Paultre and Kate Chappell PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - When Lydie Jean-Baptiste saw her neighbors running from their homes on Saturday and felt the ground begin to shake beneath her feet, the 62-year-old Haitian was flooded by terrifying memories of the earthquake a decade ago that devastated her hometown. For many in the poor Caribbean nation, Saturday s major quake - which killed more than 300 people and left hundreds injured - revived the trauma of the Jan. 12, 2010 temblor from which the country was still reeling. The neighbors, I saw them running and running. I said ‘What’s wrong?’ They said ‘Earthquake!’ and I rushed to the front door, Jean-Baptiste said. All of a sudden, I had all those images of January 12 coming to my mind and I felt really, really scared. Her neighborhood of Delmas, in the southern outskirts of Port-au-Prince, was tossed by Saturday s quake, whose epicenter was some 150 km (90 miles) to the west of the capital. But in 2010, the tremor struck ....
The number of people who died from the 2010 tremor vary from below 100,000 to as high as the government's 316,000.. Read more at straitstimes.com. ....