Haiti Earthquake Maps and Data
On Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 4:53 PM, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Relief agencies and scientific agencies from all over the world have been compiling maps and other data to aid in relief efforts. Over the last several days I’ve been trying to help compile maps and other GIS data into KML format for Google Earth. I will try to continue to update this web page as more maps and data become available.
If you are simply looking to view maps and other data related to Haiti and the Earthquake, then you should use the Google Earth link below (download and install Google Earth first). This will add numerous map/data layers to Google Earth. Simply check the boxes next to the map/data layer that you want to view and it will become visible. Some of the layers may take a minute or two to load, depending on the speed of your internet connection.
A detailed list of all the layers is included below. Every time you restart Google Earth, any new map/data layers will automatically be added to Google Earth on your computer.
If you are a GIS professional or relief worker, then you might find some additional useful information below, including offline version of the Google Earth KML files, GeoTIFFs of the source maps, and SHP files of the vector data. If you’re not a GIS Professional, then you should probably only use the Google Earth version of the maps/data from above. Pretty much everything listed below is included with the Google Earth version above.
Layers marked with a ** are included as KML in a single zip file that can be downloaded and used offline with Google Earth – Offline KML zip (Version 2)
Update 1/16 – Here is a zip file with 19 layers of data from MINUSTAH in KMZ format for Google Earth. Layers include hospitals, wells, rivers, roads, landmarks, etc, etc. These are not yet included in the main KML link above (ran out of time today). I’ll try to add later tonight. In meantime, you can download the zip file and just load the KMZ files individually.
Update 1/16 – Here is a zip file with 50K topographic maps covering pretty much the entire country of Haiti. The zip file is about 390 megabytes. These are 8-bit GeoTIFFs. I should have KMZs of them all tomorrow.
Satellite Imagery
| Layer | Source | Offline Ver |
| Geo Eye satellite images of the PAP area on 1/13/2010 | KML |
1/12/2010 Earthquake Event Maps/Data
| Layer | Source | Offline |
| **Preliminary Damage Assessment near PAP. Based on review of satellite imagery | JPG | |
| **MMI Intensity Zones near PAP | ||
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**Shake Map – MMI Zones across Haiti |
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| **Population Exposure |
UN Cartographic USGS |
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| **Potentially Affected Population | ||
| **Haiti Earthquakes |
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| **MMI Values for Towns in Haiti | ||
| **Aftershocks – Locations/Magnitudes |
General Haiti Maps
| Layer | Source | Offline |
| **Joint Operations Graphic Topographic Maps (1:250,000) |
US Department of Defense |
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| **PAP Topographic Maps (1:12,500) | ||
| **Global Map of Haiti | ||
| **Population Density of Haiti Towns | ||
| **PAP Street Map – General | ||
| **PAP Street Map – Detailed | ||
| **PAP Topographic Map (1:100,000) | ||
| **Topographic Detail Map – Near epicenter | ||
| **Shaded Relief Map of Haiti | ||
| **Haiti Administrative Polygons (Departments/Communes/Sections) |
US Census?? |
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| **Wireless Telephone Coverage (Voila and Digicel) |
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| **Major Roads Lines |
UNJLC |
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| PAP Roads Lines |
UNJLC |
General Seismic Maps
| Layer | Source | Offline |
| **Enriquillo-Plaintain Garden Fault | ||
| **Epicentral Region Map | ||
| **Seismic Hazard Map | ||
| **Tectonic Setting Map |
Please note that none of these maps should be considered “official” and georeferencing may not be accurate. Use at your own risk.
hey, folks, the year is now 2010. Minor error, but pity the poor kid who writes a school report about this event.
Thanks…corrected….It usually takes me about 3-4 weeks to remember to start using the new year. :)
hey to all earthquake victims if i could i would help all i can really do is pray 4 all of u
Hi folks,
we are linking to your page! great job! if anyone can send us vector data or processed remote sensing images we will host them.
http://cegrp.cga.harvard.edu/content/haiti-earthquake-data
best regards,
–Lex Berman
Thanks Lex. I went ahead and imported the Administrative boundaries at your website into Google Earth. I don’t know of any other vector data.
Would be nice. I’m not sure. I think we’ll have some better satellite imagery in the next day or 2.
Pray and give…they need our help.
FABULOUS LIST! We are tweeting this data on Twitter to our followers and they’ll send it beyond. Much thanks!
Peace beyond understanding to the hearts of Haiti!
Ciao!
IQXS
Hi ! Very interesting job. I’m a geography professor, and I would like to use it with my students. I’ve download the file, I’ve opened it … but it doesn’t works ! I clicked on “more information” … and then ?
You should see list of folders under Temporary Places on the left side of your screen in Google Earth. Click the little checkbox next to the folder list to expand.
sorry god bless in haiti……..sorry for ur country in haiti……….will help ur haiti ok
Me again…
Once I get my subscription set up for Google Earth MapMaker, I’ll start doing edits and update based off the GeoEye imagery.
Question: How does the MapMaker process work? Once I do the work, how will the NGOs on the ground be able to see the results?
Will GeoEye publish updated imagery periodically?
JRC is posting data and maps on http://dma.jrc.it/map/data, including data on damage assessment, slope (landslides) and built-up area. Maps are also posted on GDACS and Reliefweb
@TracyPaul
Tracy Paul and others,
Regarding the MapMaker process, if you watch a few of the videos it will be really clear. Quite simple. One note is that when I last checked, the vectors of Port au Prince are (temporarily) misregistered with the imagery. My advice is to find somewhere else in the country (e.g. to the south and west) and do your digitizing there. It’s much more satisfying and easier to understand when the vectors are perfectly aligned with the images. Good luck!
Hi, thanks for posting the 50K TLM maps of Haiti. Question: Do you have the map sheets that border Dominican Republic?
Sorry….I think we’re all probably getting them from the same source, which is missing a few. Maybe someone else knows?
@emo lover
Hi,
in GMOSAIC projecy (EC funded) we produced lots of damage assessment and trafficability maps (and vectors – shp and KML) over Leogane, PaP and Jacmel.
Please refer to http://spatial.telespazio.it/gmosaic_haiti
feel free to redistribute da and maps quoting “GMOSAIC EC FP7 Project”
Ciao
Domenico Grandoni
@Lex
Hi there,
Great job for those data listing !
It might be a late question but could you indicate us the originator source of the 50k topo maps ?
Thanks in advance.
L.R.J.
I’m not 100% sure, but I think they are from https://gist.itos.uga.edu/
For the first few days after EQ, I was just trying to get info out the door and didn’t do such a great job of keeping track of where everything came from.
Great resources! I’m flying out Wednesday morning on an assessment team with a humanitarian group and this will be great to have loaded up into my laptop and gps.
ya thx i just finished writing a report on the haitian erthquake :(
i feel so sorry for the haitians! ;(
Hi there!
I am working on a project where I want to make an Information Visualization of the country Haiti, how it got affected by the earthquake. What I want to show on the plot is that how many civilians got killed in the earthquake per region area, how many got injured in the earthquake per region area and so on. With region I mean the every communes that the country Haiti is divided in which consists of 133 communes like Arcahaie, Ouanaminthe, Trod du Nord and so on. On this website I found the graphical image of the country with its division of the communes which is saved in shapefiles. But now I need to find statistical data on the death/injury toll per region area in Haiti and I haven’t managed to find that particular information in well known databases like Worldbank, WHO, Eclac, OECD, ICRC and IDB. All information I can find about the earthquake is how many got killed in total and where the most was killed, that is in the city Port-Au-Prince. So I am wondering I you know where exactly I can find this type of statistical data and which is preferrable saved in a spreadsheet data?
If you are not sure what I mean with Information Visualization you can check these two links
http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery.html
http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/apis/visualization/documentation/gallery/geomap.html
/John
that sucks i feel so sorry for you guys that are in haiti