The death toll from a 5.9 earthquake that hit Haiti over the weekend Rose to at least 15 people with 333 injured , according to updated figures released by authority's , as rescue Crews worked to help victims spooked by strong aftershock . Haiti's civil protection agency said in a statement that they will soon deploy 70 soldiers to the North Quest and Aartibonite provinces that were hardest hit . They already sent 14 soldiers along with nurses and doctors to the area over the weekend . Thousands of people along Haiti's north coast have tracked mattresses and chairs outside hearing new aftershocks .
Many wondered how they are going to rebuild from Saturday night's quake and a strong 5.2 magnitude aftershock on Sunday that had resident in the coastal city of Port-de-Paix.
The US geological survey said the epicenter of the aftershock was located 9.8 miles North-Northwest of Port-de-Paix . A vastly larger magnitude 7.1 quake damaged much of the capital in 2010 and killed and estimated 3 lakh people .
President Jovenel Moise urged people to donate blood and asked International Agencies to co-ordinate with local Agencies to avoid duplicated efforts . The government did not provide an estimate of the damage . The USGS said Saturday's quake was centered 12 miles Northwest of Port-de-Paix which is about 136 miles from the capital of Port De Prince .
It was felt lightly in the capital as well as in the neighbouring dominician republic and in Eastern Cuba , where no damage was reported . In Haiti , officials have struggled to shore up buildings despite the two major fault lines along hispaniola which is the Island shared with dominican Republic. The damage from the temblors was visible .
The civil protection agency is issued a statement saying that hauses were destroyed in Port-de-Paix , Gross-Morne, Chansolme and Turtle Island . Damage was also reported and the Saint Michael Church in Plaisance and the police station In Port-de-Paix . Parts of hospitals and an auditorium collapsed in Gros-Morne , where parliamentarian Alaid Audne told the associated press that two of the deaths occured .
