Haiti Earthquake Free Maps and Related Resources

Maps, Web Maps, Open Source and related geospatial data and information related to the 2010 earthquake in Haiti

Haiti Earthquake GeoEye Satellite Maps on Google Earth - Working with satellite imaging company GeoEye, Google on Wednesday evening updated its imagery of Haiti to reflect the devastation of 12 Tuesday's earthquake.

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ERDAS Apollo Web Service

DigitalGlobe - Haiti Coverage map (pdf)

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument on NASA’s Terra spacecraft captured this false-color image of Haiti on January 21, 2010, nine days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the region and caused massive damage and loss of life, and one day after a large 5.9 aftershock caused additional damage.

While ASTER’s 15-meter (50-foot) resolution is not sufficient to see damaged buildings, it can be used to identify other results of the shaking. Tiny dots of white against the plant-covered landscape (red in this image) are possible landslides, a common occurrence in mountainous terrain after large earthquakes. The possible landslides were identified by carefully comparing the new image with an image acquired one year ago.

Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, is silver in the false-color image. The rivers are pale blue, while the ocean is dark blue. Exposed soil is white. See the picture here

NASA 7.0 Quake Near Port Au Prince satellite image on January 21, 2010

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

We've worked closely with GeoEye throughout the afternoon to make their most recent satellite imagery of Haiti, taken at approximately 10:27am EST today, available as a KML overlay for Google Earth. You can download the KML here and open it in Google Earth, or look at it via the browser plug-in below. As you'll see, the imagery shows a powerful glimpse into the destruction in Haiti. Here are before-and-after screenshots of the Presidential Palace and an area of Port-au-Prince:

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We will continue to automatically update the layer (you'll only need to download it once) as we are able to make more imagery and data available.

New York Times - Relief map showing magnitude of the disaster

Earthquakes with 1,000 or more deaths since 1900