Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
Learning From Earthquakes

Geotechnical Engineering Reconnaissance of the 2010 Haiti Earthquake

The earthquake epicenter was located immediately west of the city of Port-au-Prince, and the damage induced by this event was extreme. It is estimated that over 200,000 people were killed during the earthquake, and several hundred thousand injured. A strike-slip Mw = 7 event that affects ground near the margins of a bay represents a […]