Haiti’s steep mountains combined with its tropical rainfall pose a threat for landslides. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated the country on January 12, 2010, may have also triggered landslides and shifted earth so that landslides are more likely in the future. This true-color image highlights potential new landslides around the earthquake’s epicenter, which is just beyond the edge of the image. The landslides are bright streams of exposed earth that contrast with the dark green plants and tan soil around them. Some, but not all, of the potential landslides are labeled....
The geology of Haiti works against the people from every imaginable direction. It will be a chronic project for all those countries involved.
Haiti is a challenge.
We just keep at it.
We don't need impoverished and desperate people vulnerable to potential terrorist networks in the Western Hemisphere.
