Earthquake Information

Teachable Moment Presentations

• 12 slide Teachable Moment Powerpoint (zipped, includes animation)
  Set of slides created in the first hours after the earthquake with information to use in middle school, high school or college classes.
• University of Portland/IRIS Earthquake Notice (pdf)
• Converted Teachable Moment Powerpoint (pdf)


• updated 20 Jan Follow up: Building Damage in Earthquakes (pdf)

Animations and Visualizations

• Seismic Wave Propagation (Youtube / Quicktime)
• Why didn't the magnitude 7 earthquake in Haiti cause a large tsunami? (Youtube / Quicktime)
• USArray Wave Visualization Globe (Youtube / Quicktime 15MB)
  -watch seismic waves from the Haiti earthquake as they cross the USArray's seismometer deployment. Blue circles indicate a seismometer moving down; red circles indicate a seismometer moving up.
  Click here to learn more.
• Six Month Seismic Monitor Central America Earthquake Activity Map (Youtube / Quicktime 6.7MB)
• updated 20 Jan Seismic Monitor View of the Haiti earthquake and aftershocks (Flash) or with color coded magnitude (Quicktime).

To save the videos above, right click a Quicktime link and choose "Save Target As".

USGS Resources

• USGS Poster of the Haiti Earthquake
• USGS CoreCast
• USGS Earthquake Hazards Program

En Español

• Presentación en Español (ppt 3.28MB)
• Periódico La Jornada - Haití, devastado por un terremoto; el país más pobre del hemisferio clama por ayuda
• Periódico La Nación - Dramática búsqueda de sobrevivientes en Haití tras el devastador sismo
• El Nacional (Republica dominicana) - Miles de muertos; muchos siguen atrapados
• Claridad- Haití: A dos días del terremoto

Additional Haiti Earthquake Resources

• added 17 Feb Security cameras at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince
• added 15 Feb Haiti Field reconnaisance - Roger Bilham
• added 1 Feb NSF Geophysicists in Haiti Blog
• added 28 Jan Scientists Return to Haiti to Assess Possibility of Another Major Quake (NSF)
• added 27 Jan USGS Assessment of Aftershock Hazards in Haiti
• added 20 Jan Seismology and Tectonics of Hispaniola (ppt 17.5MB)- Jay Pulliam, Paul Mann, Lisa Gahagen
• added 20 Jan Haiti Earthquake 2010: Facts, Engineering, Images & Maps - MCEER
• added 20 Jan The 10% Solution: How to Respond to the Haitian Earthquake- Brian Tucker (GeoHazards International) January 14th Guardian (UK)
• Recent Geology/Geophysics on Haiti
  added 20 Jan  Jackson School of Geophysics: The University of Texas at Austin
  added 20 Jan  Purdue University: Eric Calais
• Earthquake 101 video on the Haiti earthquake from NBC Nightly News
• Natural Hazard and Vulnerability Assessment of the Caribbean, Fall 2009 Class Project, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC (ppt 2MB)
  -Class project for Geology 213: Natural Hazards which identified Haiti as having the highest risk of damaging future earthquake
• Deformation of Jamaica and motion of the Gonave microplate from GPS and seismic data
  Authored by C. DeMets and M. Wiggins-Grandison (pdf 1.5MB)
  -2006 research paper on the motion of the Gonave microplate using GPS  and seismic data gathered on the island of Jamaica. Haiti and Jamaica extend onto the Gonave microplate
• Woods Hole Science Center
  -Caribbean tsunami and earthquake hazards studies with movies, diagrams and recent research publications
• Observed and predicted Caribbean GPS site velocities (pdf) from
  "Is There a Northern Lesser Antilles Forearc Block?" López, A., S. Stein, T.
  Dixon, G. Sella, E. Calais, P. Jansma, J. Weber, and P. LaFemina, Geophys.
  Res. Lett., 33, doi:10.1029/2005GL025293.
• Stress, strain and topo maps from UNAVCO site
• US Agency for International Development