Special Seismic Bulletin, August 14, 2021 to August 14, 2022
- On August 14, 2021 at 8:29 a.m. local time, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck southwestern Haiti, with its epicenter in the commune of Baradères in the Nippes.
- The civil protection directorate reported 2,248 deaths, 12,763 injured, 320 missing, 53,815 houses destroyed and 83,770 damaged in Nippes, Grand'Anse and Sud, with more than 690,000 people affected, close to 40% of the population of the three departments.
- From August 14, 2021 to August 14, 2022, 2,437 earthquakes were recorded nationally, 2,326 of them in the three departments: 1,022 in Nippes, 944 in Grand'Anse and 360 in Sud.
- The largest aftershock, magnitude 5.8, occurred on August 14, 2021 about 30 km northwest of Camp Perrin.
- From October 1, 2021 to August 14, 2022, 1,423 earthquakes were recorded in the three departments: 482 in Nippes, 762 in Grand'Anse and 179 in Sud.
- Most Grand'Anse events are offshore about 15 km north of Jérémie, on the North Grand'Anse-Nippes fault, whose strongest event of the year was a magnitude 5.1 earthquake on March 23, 2022.
The bulletin recalls the magnitude 7.2 earthquake of August 14, 2021, located in the Nippes on the Enriquillo Plantain Garden fault system, and the damage reported by the civil protection directorate in the Nippes, Grand'Anse and Sud. It reviews the 2,437 earthquakes recorded nationally from August 14, 2021 to August 14, 2022, of which 2,326 were in those three departments.
It describes how activity shifted over the year: the Nippes led in the first weeks, Grand'Anse led from October 2021 except in January 2022, when the magnitude 5.5 earthquake near Anse-à-Veau on January 24 brought new aftershocks to the Nippes. Most Grand'Anse events are offshore about 15 km north of Jérémie, on the North Grand'Anse-Nippes fault identified in 2017.
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Bureau of Mines and Energy (BME), Special Seismic Bulletin, August 14, 2021 to August 14, 2022, https://bme.gouv.ht/media/upload/doc/publications/Bulletin_sp%C3%A9cial_aout_2022_vf.pdf
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