Articles | Volume 20, issue 7
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2055-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-2055-2020
Research article
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28 Jul 2020
Research article |  | 28 Jul 2020

Deep submarine landslide contribution to the 2010 Haiti earthquake tsunami

Adrien Poupardin, Eric Calais, Philippe Heinrich, Hélène Hébert, Mathieu Rodriguez, Sylvie Leroy, Hideo Aochi, and Roby Douilly

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HAITI-SIS cruise, RV L'Atalante S. Leroy https://doi.org/10.17600/12010070

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The Mw 7 Haiti earthquake in 2010 was accompanied by local tsunamis that caused fatalities and damage to coastal infrastructure. Earthquakes alone could not explain all observations in Hispaniola Island. We suspected that a big submarine landslide occured and generated the 3 m high waves observed near Jacmel and Pedernales. We identify a landslide scar 30 km from the epicenter and at a depth of 3500 m and we simulate the corresponding tsunami which gives results very close to observations.
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