The magnitude 7.0 earthquake in the impoverished nation of Haiti has clearly had devastating consequences. I don’t know what I can add in terms of useful information except perhaps to point interested readers to these additional sources of information. This is truly a heart-breaking situation. Click through for the links. (Photo by UNDP Global)

Links to Haiti Earthquake Info

• Haiti Earthquake new and reactions from Haitian and Carribean Netizens - Groundreport.com - USGS Landslide Events
• The geology underlying the devastating Haiti earthquake / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com - Ramon Aerosmith's Blog
• Arrowsmith blog » Blog Archive » Magnitude 7.0 - HAITI REGION
• Ontario-geofish: Search results for haiti
  This guy is one of my favorite geo-bloggers. He has a more rock mechanics and earthquake engineering perspective. This link is to a search of his blog so you can see his most recent insights into this earthquake.
• Imagery Layer for Haiti Earthquake has been released | Google Earth Blog
• Haiti Current Events and News | Geology.com
  This is another great source of ongoing coverage of the situation.
• Dave's Landslide Blog: The Haiti earthquake - likely shaking damage to structures
  Professor Petley does a very nice job breaking down USGS shake map data and how intensities relate to structure damage and he reproduces table comparisons of various Haitian cities/towns and their shaking intensities and populations.
• USGS CoreCast: Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake Strikes Haiti
  This is the USGS Podcast discussing the event.
• Dave's Landslide Blog: Haiti - some thoughts on disaster reporting by the media
• Flawed Building Likely a Big Element - NYTimes.com

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