Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Earthquake | Wire. InShare0 The pictures and video from on-the-ground reports in Haiti following the magnitude 7 earthquake Tuesday are truly heartbreaking. But it is difficult to imagine the full extent of the damage to that country and its capital, Port-au-Prince, in particular. These new satellite images released Wednesday by Google and GeoEye show the devastation from above, giving a new view of the severity of this disaster. We’ve posted some of the images here. The satellite image above, captured by the GeoEye-1 satellite Wednesday morning, shows the National Palace after the quake. Images: Google/Geoeye Pages: 1 2345678910View All.
Images aériennes de Port-au-Prince aprés le séisme. PAGER - M 7.0 - HAITI REGION. Red alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses. High casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread. Past red alerts have required a national or international response. Estimated economic losses are 20-100% GDP of Haiti. PAGER content is automatically generated, and only considers losses due to structural damage. Limitations of input data, shaking estimates, and loss models may add uncertainty. PAGER results are generally available within 30 minutes of the earthquake’s occurrence. However, information on the extent of shaking will be uncertain in the minutes and hours following an earthquake and typically improves as additional sensor data and reported intensities are acquired and incorporated into models of the earthquake's source.
18.4514 -72.4452(M7.0 - HAITI REGION - 2010 January 12 21:53:09. Google Releases New High-Res Satellite Images of Haiti | Wired S. Mozilla Firefox. Séisme en Haïti Dossier réalisé par François Jarraud, avec la participation de Béatrice Crabère, Eric Jourdan, Jean-Pierre Gallerand, Norbert Troufflard, Christine Reymond, Monique Royer, Nathalie Doudet. C'est une des pires catastrophes de ce siècle. Le séisme d'Haïti a eu lieu mardi 12 janvier 2010 vers 17 h (locale) (vers 23 h en France). Il frappe une région peuplée d'environ 4 millions de personnes et 2 millions au moins se situent dans la zone de destruction.
Il touche aussi un des pays les plus pauvres et les moins organisés de la planète. Le Café pédagogique a pu orienter les enseignants dès le mercredi 13 janvier au matin où L'Expresso du jour donnait de premières ressources pour présenter le séisme et évaluer les dégâts. Ce dossier vise à aider les enseignants de différentes disciplines à s'appuyer sur cet événement pour leur enseignement. Scientists Scramble to Analyze Haiti’s Seismic Risk | Wired Scie. Since the ground shook Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, on Jan. 12 and sent the densely populated city into chaos, scientists have been harnessing every possible tool to quickly assemble a detailed picture of a region in which scientific research had already been difficult to conduct. “The question we are trying to address right now is if there could be other faults nearby or perhaps other portions of the fault to the east or west that could go,” says Eric Calais, a geophysicist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, who has used GPS stations to monitor the area since 2003.
At 4:53 p.m. local time on the day of the quake, a magnitude-7.0 temblor struck just 15 miles west-southwest of Port-Au-Prince, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The shallow quake occurred along the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault system, one of several major faults defining the boundary between the Caribbean and North America tectonic plates that move past each other in an east-west direction near Haiti. Google Earth Library » Haiti Earthquake Maps and Data. On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.
Relief agencies and scientific agencies from all over the world have been compiling maps and other data to aid in relief efforts. Over the last several days I’ve been trying to help compile maps and other GIS data into KML format for Google Earth. I will try to continue to update this web page as more maps and data become available. If you are simply looking to view maps and other data related to Haiti and the Earthquake, then you should use the Google Earth link below (download and install Google Earth first).
This will add numerous map/data layers to Google Earth. A detailed list of all the layers is included below. If you are a GIS professional or relief worker, then you might find some additional useful information below, including offline version of the Google Earth KML files, GeoTIFFs of the source maps, and SHP files of the vector data. Satellite Imagery General Haiti Maps.