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Invisible faults under shaky ground

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The Haiti earthquake ruptured one or more buried faults, generated tsunamis and caused extensive structural damage in Port-au-Prince. Investigations in the epicentral region quantify seismic hazards but offer no clear views of Haiti's seismic future.

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Figure 1: The valley of the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault viewed from the west.

ROGER BILHAM

Figure 2: Schematic models for subsurface slip in the Haiti earthquake.

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  1. Roger Bilham is at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) and Department of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0399, USA. bilham@colorado.edu,

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Bilham, R. Invisible faults under shaky ground. Nature Geosci 3, 743–745 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo1000

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