Roger Bilham, one of the first seismologists to visit Haiti after last month's earthquake, calls for UN enforcement of resistant construction in cities with a history of violent tremors.
Enjoying our latest content?
Log in or create an account to continue
- Access the most recent journalism from Nature's award-winning team
- Explore the latest features & opinion covering groundbreaking research
or
References
Fierro, E. & Perry, C. Preliminary Reconnaissance Report — 12 January 2010 Haiti Earthquake (The Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, 2010); available at http://peer.berkeley.edu/publications/haiti_2010/documents/Haiti_Reconnaissance.pdf
Manaker, D. M. et al. Geophys. J. Int. 174, 889–903 (2008).
Prentice, C. S., Mann, P., Taylor, F. W., Burr, G. & Valastro, S. Geology 21, 49–52 (1993).
McCann, W. in Proc. NSF Caribbean Tsunami Workshop (eds Mercado-Irizarry, A. & Liu, P.) 43–65 (World Sci. Publ. Co., 2004).
Kerr, R. A. Science 327, 398 (2010).
Laursen, L. Nature doi:10.1038/news.2010.51 (2010).
Bilham, R. Bull. Seismol. Soc. Am. 79, 425–450 (1989).
Ali, S. T., Freed, A. M., Calais, E., Manaker, D. M. & McCann, W. R. Geophys. J. Int. 174, 904–918 (2008).
Lin, J., Stein, R. S., Sevilgen, V. & Toda, S. USGS-WHOI-DPRI Coulomb stress-transfer model for the January 12, 2010, Mw=7.0 Haiti earthquake US Geological Survey Open-File Rep. 2010–1019 (USGS, 2010).
Hough, S. E. & Bilham, R. After the Earth Quakes (Oxford Univ. Press, 2006).
Bilham, R. Bull. Earthq. Eng. 7, 839–887 (2009).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/14/haiti-quake-aid-pledges-country-donations
Tucker, B. Architecture as Aid: Preventing Another Haitian Crisis Presentation to the World Affairs Council, 2 February 2010; available at http://geohaz.org/news/presentations.html
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Bilham, R. Lessons from the Haiti earthquake. Nature 463, 878–879 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463878a
Published:
Issue date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/463878a
This article is cited by
-
Global occurrence models for human and economic losses due to earthquakes (1967–2018) considering exposed GDP and population
Natural Hazards (2022)
-
Karst aquifers and water resource contamination in Haiti
Hydrogeology Journal (2022)
-
“Y no quedó nada, nada de la casa, todo salió volando” (And there was nothing left, nothing of the house, everything flew away): a critical medical ecological perspective on the lived experience of hurricane María in Puerto Rico
BMC Public Health (2021)
Donna Jean
I think this is a great move to visit Haiti. - "Roger Bilham, one of the first seismologists to visit Haiti after last month's earthquake, calls for UN enforcement of resistant construction in cities with a history of violent tremors."
ecommerce software solution
best ecommerce software
Donna Jean
I highly recommend this article to all interested in all that nature.com has to offer all of us readers.
free ecommerce website
ecommerce website builder
Michelle Landswerth
I highly recommend this article to all interested in all that nature.com has to offer all of us readers.
Breast Actives
Xtreme No
Xtremeno
Caralluma-Actives
Jenifer Terpine
This article is mind boggling I cant understand why this appears to be happening all over the scientific community. Truly amazing!
hghenergizer