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“这是一次巨大的灾难——海地可能失去0.5%到1%的人口。”美国伊利诺伊大学地震学家宋晓东说,“海地已经是最贫穷的国家之一,这下可能又要倒退20年。”他表示,这次大地震已经在地震学家的预料之中,“只是来得太突然了”。中国科学院研究生院地球科学学院史保平教授指出,这次海地地震的最主要特征就是震源比较浅,只有13千米,震中距离海地首都只有25千米,且发生在人口密集地区。“海地是世界上最贫穷的国家之一,建筑物工程质量极差,
”This is a huge disaster - Haiti may lose 0.5% to 1% of the population.“ ”Song Xiaodong, a seismologist at the University of Illinois, USA, said:“ Haiti is already one of the poorest countries, and it may go backwards again 20 years. ”“ He said that the earthquake was already in the expectation of the seismologists ”It just came so suddenly “. Prof. Shibao Ping, School of Earth Sciences, Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, pointed out that the most important feature of this earthquake in Haiti is that the focal point is relatively shallow with only 13 km. The epicenter is only 25 km away from the capital of Haiti and occurs in densely populated areas. ”Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world, with poor quality of building works,