Or less. Looks like the main 'hammer' of the earthquake was directed away from Haiti.
A building collapsed that had no steel in the concrete. The building next door is fine.
A rubble house collapsed and there is a nice house beside it. That house was built on a thick concrete slab with steel. A house built with steel and concrete should survive 20-30 cm/s.
Haiti better start building right because the next earthquake, most likely in 10 years, will produce 20-30 cm/s.
ps. an instrument at the US embassy measures it at 5 cm/s.
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