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Haiti Mw 7.0 earthquake of January 12, 2010 : lifeline performance

By Edwards , Curtis L

Book information

Publisher
ASCE
Year
2012
ISBN
978-0-7844-1240-4, 978-0-7844-7695-6, 0784412405
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
35 MB (36626334 bytes)
Series
Monograph (American Society of Civil Engineers. Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering) no. 35
Pages
164\175
Time added
2016-04-05 23:00:00

Description

On January 12th, 2010, an earthquake struck the western peninsula of the Republic of Haiti, claiming more than 250,000 lives and leaving 1.2 million people homeless. The earthquake, which registered a magnitude of 7.0, destroyed homes, schools, and hospitals and triggered landslides and soil liquefaction that damaged the port and coastal roads. This TCLEE report discusses in detail the effects of this earthquake on lifeline infrastructure systems

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