Haiti earthquake: It wasn't the fault of Enriquillo

Scientists initially identified the Enriquillo fault as the source of the 12 January 2010 earthquake that struck Haiti, killing more than 200,000 people and leaving 1.5 million homeless. But they had the wrong suspect. Geophysicist Eric Calais explains how new evidence shows that it was another fault that was responsible for the earthquake.

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Science & Technology

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• Haiti
• earthquake
• Enriquillo
• seismology
• Calais