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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits northern Haiti
By Steve Almasy, Daniel Silva Fernandez, Sara Mazloumsaki and Susannah Cullinane, CNN
Updated 1:25 AM ET, Sun October 7, 2018
![Anuwat Kongko, a 28-year-old hiker from Thailand, was on top of Mount Rinjani when the earthquake hit.
"I reached the summit [Mont Rinjani] at around 6am along with some friends. Then I spent some time taking pictures with my camera with my friends until 6.47am, when the 1st earthquake occurred. It's just like the mountain was shaking. Everyone crouched on the floor and after it stopped I started to run away from there.
"After 10minutes an aftershock happened. Then, everyone was told to move out from there pretty quickly (you can see it in my video). Some of the pathway was destroyed by the earthquake."
Kongko said it took them 1 hour to get from the summit to the camping area, and 3 hours from the camping area to the village.](http://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180730094905-03-indonesia-earthquake-hiker-small-169.jpg)
(CNN)A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near Haiti on Saturday night, according to the US Geological Survey.
At least seven people were killed and 130 injured, according to a partial assessment of the damage, Renald Lubérice, General Secretary of the Council of Ministers of Haiti said on Twitter. "The government is mobilized to assist the victims. We ask people in affected areas to remain vigilant," Lubérice said.
Prime Minister Jean-Henry Céant said a crisis cabinet has been created to coordinate all emergency responses to the earthquake.
"Damage has been recorded mainly in the Far North. All my sympathies to the victims. The executive at the highest level is mobilized to provide appropriate answers. I call on the population to be cautious and calm," he said in a statement posted to Twitter.
President Jovenel Moïse also tweeted that civil protection workers are already working to assist people in affected areas.
Two minor aftershocks also felt
The USGS said the center of the quake was about 11 miles northwest of the city of Port-de-Paix. It was only 7.2 miles deep.
There was no tsunami warning in effect following the quake, which was felt across the country,the Haitian civil protection agency said.
The agency said damage and injuries were mostly concentrated in the northwest region of the island, where two minor aftershocks were also felt, the agency said. It said the injured are receiving treatment in hospitals.
In January 2010, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake killed an estimated 220,000 to 300,000 people in Haiti. Tens of thousands of people are still displaced as a result of the quake.
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