Localized damage caused by topographic amplification during the 2010 M7.0 Haiti earthquake

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 778-782

  Hough, Susan E ^a   Altidor, Jean Robert ^b   Anglade, Dieuseul ^b   Given, Doug ^a   Janvier, M Guillard ^b   Maharrey, J Zebulon ^c   Meremonte, Mark ^c   Mildor, Bernard Saint Louis ^b   Prepetit, Claude ^b   Yong, Alan ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie   (Haïti)

^c DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKE DAMAGE; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURE; SEISMIC HAZARD; SEISMIC WAVE; TOPOGRAPHY;

HAITI; PORT AU PRINCE;

EID: 78049452277     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo988     Document Type: Article

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