Web Earthquakes: Central America/Caribbean

Central America/Caribbean

Links for large 1999-2008 earthquakes

13 January, 2010 M 7.0 Earthquake Southern Haiti

USGS page, with location maps, links to mechanisms, fault slip, historical seismicity
USGS Earthquake poster for Haiti EQ
IRIS teachable moments links (wavefront animations, links to other announcements--will go stale)
Roger Bilham page (overall scientific information and expectation of such a disaster)
Scientific American blog entry discussing background seismic history
GEOSCOPE page on event (aftershock maps, seismograms, data links)
CNN Haiti Earthquake page
BBC story on quake aftermath

You can also locate zooms of seismicity through a clickable map

Last 10 days events, Central America (senso stricto) (Instituto Nicaragüense de Estudios Territoriales - Direccion de Geofisica),inline with list (click on Centro América on left), inline or external

Past year's events from the GEOSCOPE network, inline (with hypertext listing) or external

(out of date) Recent significant events in region (Middle America Seismograph Consortium, Univ. Puerto Rico, San Juan), clickable list, inline only (also at Middle America Digital Seismograph Consortium, Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayaguez), map and list, inline)

(out of date) Most recent events (Middle America Seismograph Consortium, Univ. Puerto Rico, San Juan), clickable list, inline only (also at Middle America Digital Seismograph Consortium, Univ. Puerto Rico, Mayaguez), list and map, inline) (includes links to maps by contributing network)

Mexico

Most recent event (on shaded relief) ( Servicio Sismólogico Nacional, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Meacute) , inline (zoomable).

Last month of seismicity in Mexico (shaded relief with listing) (Servicio Sismólogico Nacional, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Meacute) inline or external

Last week's seismicity in Mexico (shaded relief with listing) (Servicio Sismólogico Nacional, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Meacute) inline or external

Past year's events from the GEOSCOPE network, inline (with hypertext listing) or external

Costa Rica

Current year's seismicity, last event highlighted (Red Sismológica Nacional ) inline (at bottom) or external

El Salvador

Last 10 earthquakes (Servicio de Sismología, Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales) inline or external
Dynamic map (zoomable, set time range, overlays) (Servicio de Sismología, Servicio Nacional de Estudios Territoriales) inline only

Jamaica

Maps offline at present (Jamaica Seismograph Network, Univ. of West Indies, Jamaica)

Nicaragua

Last 10 days, sized by magnitude (Instituto Nicaraguense de Estudios Territoriales - Direccion de Geofisica) inline (in Spanish) or external

Panama

Maps apparently offline (Institute of Geosciences, Univ. of Panama) recent event list (no map)

Puerto Rico

Last felt event (Puerto Rico Seismic Network, Univ. of Puerto Rico), inline only .

Trinidad and Tobago (Eastern Caribbean)

Recent events (erratically organized at present; maps are usually within detailed pages for events), West Indies (Seismic Research Univ, Univ. of West Indies) inline only

Please send mail to cjones@cires.colorado.edu if you encounter any problems or have suggestions.

C. H. Jones | CIRES | Dept. of Geological Sciences | Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

Last modified at January 15, 2010 3:16 PM