Haiti 2010 earthquake—How to explain such huge losses?

The 2010 Haiti earthquake response.

This article presents an overview of the mental health response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Discussion includes consideration of complexities that relate to emergency response, mental health and psychosocial response in disasters, long-term planning of systems of care, and the development of safe, effective, and culturally sound mental health services in the Haitian context. This information ...

Fractional insurance: strategies to deal with huge potential losses

This paper describes and compares different optimization criteria for choosing fractional insurance coverage for risky ventures that may incur large losses and have high insurance rates due to substantial chances of failure. Four criteria are included: minimax loss, minimum expected loss, minimum expected loss with a limit on maximum loss, and maximum expected utility. The discussion is illustr...

The Crisis in Haiti, 2010: What’s to be done?

The current crisis in Haiti is an overwhelming example of the devastation, suffering, and death that can occur when the earth's tectonic plates are on the move in an overcrowded country. It is no surprise that the destruction was so widespread. It is as expected, given our current international situation. In fact, it is hard to envision the horrific suffering that is occurring and will continue...

Source attribution of 2010 cholera epidemic in Haiti.

Complex rupture during the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake

Initially, the devastating Mw 7.0, 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake seemed to involve straightforward accommodation of oblique relative motion between the Caribbean and North American plates along the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone. Here, we combine seismological observations, geologic field data and space geodetic measurements to show that, instead, the rupture process involved slip on ...