{"id":5645,"date":"2010-01-18T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/fault-responsible-for-haiti-quake-slices-islands-topography\/"},"modified":"2010-01-18T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T09:26:00","slug":"fault-responsible-for-haiti-quake-slices-islands-topography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/space-station\/fault-responsible-for-haiti-quake-slices-islands-topography.php","title":{"rendered":"Fault Responsible for Haiti Quake Slices Island’s Topography"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Port-au-Prince,<\/span>
A magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurred on January 12, 2010, at Port-au-Prince, Haiti, with major impact to the region and its citizens. <\/span><\/span>
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The fault responsible for the Jan. 12 magnitude 7.0 earthquake<\/span> that devastated Haiti is visible in images created using NASA<\/a> radar topography data acquired in 2000<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>

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This perspective view of the pre-earthquake topography<\/span> of the area, created using data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission<\/span> that flew aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour<\/span> in February 2000, clearly shows the Enriquillo fault that is apparently responsible for the earthquake<\/span>. The fault is visible as a prominent linear landform that forms a sharp diagonal line at the center of the image. The city of Port-au-Prince is immediately to the left (north) at the mountain front and shoreline. <\/span><\/p>

Elevations in the image are color coded from dark green at low elevations to white at high elevations, and the topography is shaded with illumination from the left. The topography <\/span>in this image is exaggerated by a factor of two.<\/span><\/p>

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