Re: Haiti quake caused by previously unknown fault
Posted by heartland chris on August 13, 2010 at 10:44:42:

Thanks, interesting. But, there was no agreement on this at the meeting I went to a month ago in Dominican Republic. Also, there may be an assumption being made that the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault is vertical. It may not be vertical; it may dip north. Also, we mapped offshore in the area that broke 2 or 3 fault strands that form a zone. It may have been on one of the northern strands. So, OK, a fault zone, and it was within the fault zone.

I said at the meeting that they need to lock up all the people that were saying mutually exclusive things about which fault/which dip direction etc and not let them out until they resolve it. They need to use the later aftershock data using the French Ocean Bottom seismometers and onshore stations from various countries including USA. They need to NOT use the remote data with no stations in Haiti, except as referenced to the new data.

We have been working on a proposal for Haiti structure rather hard for the last 3 weeks or more. I think we set a record for most people-hours spent on a proposal.

Chris


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