Published September 1, 2023
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Haiti Landslide Dataset
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Indian Institute of Sciecne Education and Research Mohali, 140 306, Punjab, India
Description
A strong magnitude earthquake (Mw 7.2) struck Haiti on August 14, 2021, triggered massive landslides in the island nation. The epicenter of the earthquake was located at 18.434° N, 73.482° W, at a depth of 10 km in the Nippes region. We mapped all the coseismic landslides triggered during the 2021 event from Landsat 8 OLI, Sentinel-2 and Google Earth archived images. A total of 4178 landslide polygons, equaling 26.84 km2 area were delineated.