World Bank/GFDRR/ImageCat/RIT Remote Sensing and Damage Assessment Mission Haiti, January 2010
The Mw 7.0 Haiti earthquake of January 12, 2010: USGS/EERI Advance Reconnaissance Team Report
Photos of building damage
Figure 1. Canado School, Soft Story. Figure 2. Church, Severe corrosion. Figure 3. Confined masonry vs. infill. Figure 4. Good detailing. Figure 5. Hotel Montana, Levels 4 and 5 slide down hill. Figure 6. Hotel Montana, No bar in column. Figure 7. Damge […]
The 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake: Emerging Research Needs and Opportunities
The Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) organized, at the direction of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Haiti RAPIDs and Research Needs Workshop. The workshop was held September 30 and October 1, 2010 at the NSF headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. The workshop included oral and poster presentations from all RAPID award recipients, followed by breakout discussions […]
News Articles
Lessons from Haiti and Chile by Forbes (April 5, 2010) Haiti: The Destruction Seen from the Air by TIME (2010) Still photos from Haiti by CNN (January 12, 2012) Flickr album by The Salvation Army (2010) Haiti Earthquake 2010: Remote Sensing based Building Damage Assessment Data by unitar (2010) Virtual Disaster Viewer aids relief effort (January 27, 2010) Day […]
Photos by Eduardo Fierro, Richard Clarke, Anuradha Mukherji, Justin Marshall, Reginald DesRoches, Anna Lang and Rob Olshansky.
Figure 1. Shear failures at first joints in Leogane school. Figure 2. No sign of damage in confined masonry residence. Figure 3. Lateral spreading at port. Figure 4. Widespread destruction of nonductile concrete structures. Figure 5. Damage view from street. Figure 6. Damage view from street. . […]
News Articles
Links: More than 2 Million Affected by Earthquake, Chile’s President Says by CNN (February 28, 2010) Chile Officials Call for Aid as Devastation Sinks In by New York Times (March 1, 2010) Maps of the Chile Earthquake by The New York Times (February 27, 2010) Blogs: Liftech Consultants Inc. Tsunami related websites: International Tsunami Information Centre […]
Observations from the EERI Steel and Industrial Buildings Team
The team left the hotel at 8:00 AM towards the airport to meet with Dr. Ernesto Cruz and Dania Valdivia from Earthquake Engineering Consultants in Santiago/Chile. The airport was investigated for damage and there was none seen except that the sprinkler system was activated after the earthquake (Figure 1). Dr. Cruz led us to the […]
Photos of Confined Masonry Performance
Figure 1. Damage to CM building in Rengo. Figure 2. Building in Rengo. Figure 3. Good performance of confined masonry in Curepto. Figure 4. Confined masonry next to collapsed adobe.
Observations from the EERI Steel and Industrial Buildings Team
We left Santiago at 9:30 AM towards Curicó, which is a small town about 200 Km south of Santiago. One of the major industries in the region is the wine industry from vineyard caring to wine production and bottling. In the aftermath of the 8.8-magnitude earthquake and aftershocks the wine industry has sustained a substantial […]