Wednesday 6 April 2011

haiti earthquake damage 2010

The earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010 was only a magnitude 7.0, a hundred times weaker than the earthquake that hit Japan a year later; yet the severity of the damage caused was completely different. There are several...

earthquake rocks Haiti,
earthquake rocks Haiti,

The earthquake in Haiti on
The earthquake in Haiti on

Port-au-Prince, Haiti 7.0 Mag
Port-au-Prince, Haiti 7.0 Mag

Haitians survey the damage to
Haitians survey the damage to

Haitian earthquake: in
Haitian earthquake: in

A House damaged by the Haitian
A House damaged by the Haitian

Over the last few years a number of studies have examined the level of damage associated with the intensity of shaking in earthquakes. The table below shows the relationship between shaking intensity (MMI) across the top...
The Landslide Blog: The Haiti earthquake - likely shaking damage to ...

Port-au-Prince's Champ de Mars camp, the most visible of the hundreds of remaining camps of Haitians rendered homeless by the 2010 earthquake, saw its first set of forced evictions on April 4. This should be of concern to those watching Canada's role in Haiti. The Champ de... Camp residents who own a house damaged by the earthquake will be given a larger subsidy to rebuild it. It all sounds good. But none of the residents interviewed by a Canada Haiti Action...
haiti earthquake damage 2010

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