18°30'

73°00'

18°15' 18°15'

18°00' 18°00'

18°30'

72°45'

73°00' 72°45' 72°30' 72°15' 72°00'

72°30' 72°15' 72°00'

HAITI

PUERTO RICO

Atlantic Ocean

Caribbean Sea

COLOMBIA VENEZUELA

Florida

DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC

CUBA

THE BAHAMAS HE BAHAMAS

JAMAICA

UNITED

STATES

UNITED

STATES

HAITI

CUBA

DOMINICAN

REPUBLIC

Atlantic Ocean

Caribbean Sea

Study area

Inset map

Inset map

Index map

SCALE 1:150,000

5 0 5 10 15 20 MILES

5 0 5 10 15 20 KILOMETERS

EXPLANATION

Fault—Left-lateral compressional faults.

Dashed where location inferred. Ball

and bar on downthrown block 

Landslides triggered by earthquake

Earthquake epicenter

Rivière Momance

Grand-Goâve

Petit-Goâve

Grand-Goâve

Petit-Goâve

Bainet

Jacmel

PORT-AU-PRINCE ORT-AU-PRINCE

Rivière BainetRivière BainetRivière BainetRivière Bainet

Rivière GaucheRivière Gauche

Rivière GrosselineRivière Grosseline

Grande Rivière De JacmelGrande Rivière De Jacmel

Rivière MomanceRivière

Momance

Rivière FroideRivière Froide

HAITI

B a i e d e

P o r t - a u - P r i n c e

Caribbean Sea Caribbean Sea Caribbean Sea a r i b b e a n S e a

Canal du Sud Canal du Sud a n a l d u S u d

Baie de

Port-au-Prince

ENRIQUILLO-PLANTAIN GARDEN FAULT ZONE (EPGFZ)

EPGFZ

EPGFZ

EPGFZ

Rivière Momance

Hanging wall Hanging wall

Footwall Footwall

Hanging wall

Footwall

Hanging wall

Footwall

Hanging wall

Footwall

Field data compiled by E.L. Harp and R.W. Jibson, 

March 2010. Imagery interpretation by E.L. Harp, 

R.W. Jibson, and R.G. Schmitt, 2010–2015

GIS database compiled by R.G. Schmitt

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) basemap from ASTER Global DEM, resolution 1 arc-second for scene

ASTGDEMV2_0N18W073, accessed October 2011 from the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) of Japan and

the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Available through the U.S. Geological Survey

at https://lpdaac.usgs.gov/dataset_discovery/aster/aster_products_table/astgtm

Coordinate information is referenced to the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84)

Roads from HaitiData accessed June 2006 from http://haitidata.org/layers/cnigs.spatialdata:hti_transport_roads_line_062006

Rivers determined from the DEM base and other public sources, 2015 

Publishing support provided by: 

Denver Publishing Service Center

Cartographic layout by J. R. Hartley

Edit by L.J. Binder

Manuscript approved for publication March 2, 2016

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APPROXIMATE MEAN

DECLINATION, 2011 TRUE NORTH

MAGNETIC NORTH

10°

Map of Landslides Triggered by the January 12, 2010, Haiti Earthquake

By

Edwin L. Harp, Randall W. Jibson, and Robert G. Schmitt

2016

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. Geological Survey

Scientific Investigations Map 3353

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