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Topography Along the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault, Haiti

A long valley reveals the location of the Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault in southern Haiti, the site of a deadly earthquake in mid-January 2010.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen, using earthquake and plate tectonics data from the USGS Earthquake Hazard Program, elevation data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) courtesy of the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility. Caption by Michon Scott and Rebecca Lindsey.

Published January 14, 2010
Data acquired January 13, 2010

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Space Shuttle > SRTM