Gert van der Hoek
In Memoriam - Editor, Senior Moderator
As cholera death toll tops 250, studies say Haiti could see another quake
Oct. 24, 2010
The earthquake that devastated Haiti’s capital and killed as many as 300,000 people in January may have been caused by an unseen fault and pressure could be building for another quake, seismic experts said on Sunday.
Two papers, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, take different approaches but both conclude the fault originally blamed for the quake was not the real source, and that it remains a threat.
“As the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault did not release any significant accumulated elastic strain, it remains a significant seismic threat for Haiti and for Port-au-Prince in particular,” Eric Calais of Purdue University in Indiana and colleagues wrote.
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thanks to Crof
Oct. 24, 2010
The earthquake that devastated Haiti’s capital and killed as many as 300,000 people in January may have been caused by an unseen fault and pressure could be building for another quake, seismic experts said on Sunday.
Two papers, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, take different approaches but both conclude the fault originally blamed for the quake was not the real source, and that it remains a threat.
“As the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault did not release any significant accumulated elastic strain, it remains a significant seismic threat for Haiti and for Port-au-Prince in particular,” Eric Calais of Purdue University in Indiana and colleagues wrote.
Read more
thanks to Crof