Seismic hazard of the Enriquillog-Plantain Garden fault in Haiti inferred from palaeoseismology

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 789-793

  Prentice, C S ^a   Mann, P ^b   Crone, A J ^c   Gold, R D ^c   Hudnut, K W ^c   Briggs, R W ^c   Koehler, R D ^d   Jean, P ^e  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FAULT ZONE; LIDAR; PALEOSEISMICITY; QUATERNARY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEISMIC HAZARD; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT;

HAITI; PORT AU PRINCE;

EID: 78049484302     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo991     Document Type: Article

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