http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/logos/usgs_only.jpg USGS Multimedia Gallery for tag: aid http://gallery.usgs.gov/ en-us OC_Web@usgs.gov (Office of Communications Web Group) http://gallery.usgs.gov/images/USGS.gif USGS http://gallery.usgs.gov/ <![CDATA[Earthquake Monitoring in Haiti]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2013_rwn8QDc55K_05_21_2013_0 Following the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, the USGS has been helping with earthquake awareness and monitoring in the country, with continued support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This assistance has helped the Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie (BME) in Port-au-Prince establish a Seismology Technical Unit and develop a first-ever national seismic network in Haiti. The Seismology Technical Unit also has an active outreach program aimed at education for local schools as well as Haitian officials, and has established itself as the authoritative local agency for matters related to earthquake hazard. A total of 15 seismic stations are now operating in Haiti, including six NetQuakes instruments owned and operated by the BME, seven USGS instruments that remain in Haiti on long-term loan, and two instruments installed by National Resources Canada. For any earthquake large enough to be felt, the NetQuakes instruments transmit triggered data via the Internet to the BME as well as several international data centers, providing a rapid-assessment capability that was lacking at the time of the 2010 earthquake. 

As part of this collaboration, USGS scientists traveled to Cap Haitien, the largest city in North Haiti, in May 2013. In this photo, the technical director of the BME Seismology Technical Unit, Jean-Robert Altidor, installs one of the strong-motion instruments.

]]> <![CDATA[Earthquake Education and Outreach in Haiti]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2013_rwn8QDc55K_05_21_2013_1 Following the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, the USGS has been helping with earthquake awareness and monitoring in the country, with continued support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This assistance has helped the Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie (BME) in Port-au-Prince establish a Seismology Technical Unit and develop a first-ever national seismic network in Haiti. The Seismology Technical Unit also has an active outreach program aimed at education for local schools as well as Haitian officials, and has established itself as the authoritative local agency for matters related to earthquake hazard. A total of 15 seismic stations are now operating in Haiti, including six NetQuakes instruments owned and operated by the BME, seven USGS instruments that remain in Haiti on long-term loan, and two instruments installed by National Resources Canada. For any earthquake large enough to be felt, the NetQuakes instruments transmit triggered data via the Internet to the BME as well as several international data centers, providing a rapid-assessment capability that was lacking at the time of the 2010 earthquake.

In this photo, BME engineer Sophia Ulysses is setting up a booth and preparing for an outreach exposition later that day in Cap Haitien, the largest city in northern Haiti.

]]> <![CDATA[Earthquake Education and Outreach in Haiti]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2013_rwn8QDc55K_05_21_2013_2 Following the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, the USGS has been helping with earthquake awareness and monitoring in the country, with continued support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This assistance has helped the Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie (BME) in Port-au-Prince establish a Seismology Technical Unit and develop a first-ever national seismic network in Haiti. The Seismology Technical Unit also has an active outreach program aimed at education for local schools as well as Haitian officials, and has established itself as the authoritative local agency for matters related to earthquake hazard. A total of 15 seismic stations are now operating in Haiti, including six NetQuakes instruments owned and operated by the BME, seven USGS instruments that remain in Haiti on long-term loan, and two instruments installed by National Resources Canada. For any earthquake large enough to be felt, the NetQuakes instruments transmit triggered data via the Internet to the BME as well as several international data centers, providing a rapid-assessment capability that was lacking at the time of the 2010 earthquake.

In this photo, USGS scientists Susan Hough and Irving Flores and NSF-supported post-doc Justin Brown are visiting two local schools in Haiti in May 2013 to discuss earthquake awareness with students.

]]> <![CDATA[Seismic Monitoring in Haiti]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2013_rwn8QDc55K_05_21_2013_3 Following the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, the USGS has been helping with earthquake awareness and monitoring in the country, with continued support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This assistance has helped the Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie (BME) in Port-au-Prince establish a Seismology Technical Unit and develop a first-ever national seismic network in Haiti. The Seismology Technical Unit also has an active outreach program aimed at education for local schools as well as Haitian officials, and has established itself as the authoritative local agency for matters related to earthquake hazard. A total of 15 seismic stations are now operating in Haiti, including six NetQuakes instruments owned and operated by the BME, seven USGS instruments that remain in Haiti on long-term loan, and two instruments installed by National Resources Canada. For any earthquake large enough to be felt, the NetQuakes instruments transmit triggered data via the Internet to the BME as well as several international data centers, providing a rapid-assessment capability that was lacking at the time of the 2010 earthquake. 

In this photo, the technical director of the BME Seismology Technical Unit, Jean-Robert Altidor (left), works with Irving Flores from the USGS (right) to establish internet transmission for a strong-motion earthquake monitoring instrument in the city of Les Cayes, Haiti.

]]> <![CDATA[Earthquake Monitoring in Haiti]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2013_rwn8QDc55K_05_21_2013_4 Following the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, the USGS has been helping with earthquake awareness and monitoring in the country, with continued support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This assistance has helped the Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie (BME) in Port-au-Prince establish a Seismology Technical Unit and develop a first-ever national seismic network in Haiti. The Seismology Technical Unit also has an active outreach program aimed at education for local schools as well as Haitian officials, and has established itself as the authoritative local agency for matters related to earthquake hazard. A total of 15 seismic stations are now operating in Haiti, including six NetQuakes instruments owned and operated by the BME, seven USGS instruments that remain in Haiti on long-term loan, and two instruments installed by National Resources Canada. For any earthquake large enough to be felt, the NetQuakes instruments transmit triggered data via the Internet to the BME as well as several international data centers, providing a rapid-assessment capability that was lacking at the time of the 2010 earthquake. 

In this photo, USGS scientist Susan Hough and NSF-supported post-doc Justin Brown examine data from a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in the Dominican Republic on July 7, 2012, recorded by one of the strong motion instruments now operated by the BME.

]]> <![CDATA[Earthquake Education and Outreach in Haiti]]> http://gallery.usgs.gov/photos/05_21_2013_rwn8QDc55K_05_21_2013_5 Following the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake, the USGS has been helping with earthquake awareness and monitoring in the country, with continued support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This assistance has helped the Bureau des Mines et de l'Energie (BME) in Port-au-Prince establish a Seismology Technical Unit and develop a first-ever national seismic network in Haiti. The Seismology Technical Unit also has an active outreach program aimed at education for local schools as well as Haitian officials, and has established itself as the authoritative local agency for matters related to earthquake hazard. A total of 15 seismic stations are now operating in Haiti, including six NetQuakes instruments owned and operated by the BME, seven USGS instruments that remain in Haiti on long-term loan, and two instruments installed by National Resources Canada. For any earthquake large enough to be felt, the NetQuakes instruments transmit triggered data via the Internet to the BME as well as several international data centers, providing a rapid-assessment capability that was lacking at the time of the 2010 earthquake.

In the background of this photo, students are listening to a presentation during an outreach exposition in Cap Haitien, the largest city in northern Haiti. In the foreground of the photo, USGS scientist Susan Hough is with Jean-Robert Altidor, who is the technical director of the BME Seismology Technical Unit, and a representative from the Haitian Red Cross looking at a disaster-preparedness game developed for local schools by the Red Cross.

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