Historic Buildings in Haiti Blog
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Photos from EERI Social Impacts Reconnaissance Team
Shelter Damage and fear of aftershocks (or another large earthquake) has displaced over 1 million Haitians from their home. This has resulted in about 315 IDP camps in Haiti sheltering 7-800,000 people. Figure 1. Bourdon bioville (hillside slum) residential damage. Figure 2. National soccer stadium IDP camp (there are many more tents outside the […]
Photos of building damage
Figure 1. Institution Paul Delmas area. Figure 2. Slumtown. Figure 3. Digicel 3-story. Figure 4. Digicel 3-story. Figure 5. Digicel 3-story. Figure 3. Digicel 3-story. Figure […]
Photos of building damage
Figure 1. Presidential Palace: collapse of center dome. Figure 2. Residential area: severe damage. Figure 3. National Bank of […]
Photos from low-rise un-engineered construction
Fig. 1. Note slabs and lightweight roofs in typical residential construction (1-2 story, 3-story less common). Fig. 2. Confined masonry: […]
Photos of societal impacts
Fig. 1. Herb seller displaced from Iron Market, Port- au-Prince. Fig. 2. Crowd of displaced persons at Presidential Palace. Fig. 3. Tent camp adjacent to Presidential Palace. Fig. 4. School papers, St. Vincent’s School for Handicapped Children. Fig. 5. […]
Photos of recovery & rebuilding
Figure 1. Cash-for-work cleanup crew, Nerette, Petionville. Figure 2. Life goes on, Port-au-Prince. Figure 3. Salvaging materials, Holy Trinity Church. Figure 4. Fonkoze microfinance NGO, hard at […]
Haiti Earthquake Response
Earthquake Spectra Special Issue on Haiti Earthquake
Digital access to articles: https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/eqsa/27/1_suppl1