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AQUIN, V1 Aquin - HAITI Earthquake - Situation As of 15/08/2021 Grading - Overview Map 01 668500 669000 669500 670000 670500 671000 671500 73°24'20"W 73°24'0"W 73°23'40"W 73°23'20"W 73°23'0"W 73°22'40"W GLIDE number: EQ-2021-000116-HTI Activation ID: EMSR536 Int. Charter Act. ID: 729 Product N.: 05AQUIN, v1 Aquin - HAITI Earthquake - Situation as of 15/08/2021 Grading - Overview map 01 Nippes Ouest NORTH0 AT7LANTIC OCEAN 06 Caribbean Sea 0 0 0 0 0 0 Sud Haiti 3 3 2 2 Aquin 05 0 0 03 (! 2 2 04 Port-au-Prince^ N " 0 2 ' 7 1 N ° " 8 0 1 2 ' 7 1 ° 8 1 Caribbean Sea 8.5 km Cartographic Information 1:5000 Full color A1, 200 dpi resolution 0 0.1 0.2 0.4 km Grid: WGS 1984 UTM Zone 18N map coordinate system Tick marks: WGS 84 geographical coordinate system ± 0 0 0 0 5 5 2 2 2 2 0 0 2 2 Legend Crisis Information General Information Built Up Grading Area of Interest Destroyed Placenames Damaged ! Placename Possibly damaged N " Transportation Grading 0 ' 7 1 Road, Damaged ° N " 8 1 0 ' 7 1 Road, Possibly damaged ° 8 1 Primary Road, No visible damage Local Road, No visible damage Cart Track, No visible damage Consequences within the AOI Possibly Total Total in Unit of measurement Destroyed Damaged damaged* affected** AOI Estimated population Number of inhabitants NA 15 423 Built-up Residential Buildings No. 0 1 0 1 NA Building point No. 1 2 5 8 NA 0 0 Transportation Primary Road km 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 4.0 0 Aquin 0 ! 0 0 Local Road km 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 10.6 2 2 2 2 Cart Track km 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 6.3 0 0 2 2 * Presence of damage proxies and proximity with destroyed/damaged asset ** Sum of Destroyed, Damaged and Possibly damaged Map Information A strong earthquake of 7.2 M hit the South of Haiti on 14th August 2021 at 12:29 UTC. The epicenter of the quake was about 12 km Northeast of Saint-Louis-Du-Sud, at a depth of 10 km. According to the media, at least 300 people were killed and 1800 injured. The present map shows the earthquake damage grade assessment in the area of Aquin N " 0 (Haiti). The thematic layer has been derived from post-event satellite image by means of 4 ' 6 visual interpretation. The scale of analysis is 1:5000. The estimated geometric accuracy 1 N ° " 8 0 (RMSE) is 100 m or better, from native positional accuracy of the background satellite image. 1 4 ' 6 The minimum mapping unit (MMU) is 1.25 sq m . 1 ° 8 1 0 0 Relevant date records (UTC) 0 0 5 5 1 1 Event 14/08/2021 12:29 Situation as of 15/05/2021 15:41 2 2 0 0 2 2 Activation 14/08/2021 16:08 Map production 16/08/2021 Data sources Pre-event image: GeoEye© Digital Globe, Inc. (2021), (acquired on 27/02/2021 at 15:33 UTC, GSD 0.5 m, approx. 0% cloud coverage in AoI, 2.8° off-nadir angle), provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union, ESA and European Space Imaging, all rights reserved. Post-event image: Pléiades-1A/B © CNES (2021), distributed by Airbus DS (acquired on 15/08/2021 at 15:41 UTC, GSD 0.5 m, approx. 0% cloud coverage in AoI, 16.5° off-nadir angle), provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA, all rights reserved. Base vector layers: OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap contributors (2021), Wikimapia.org, GeoNames 2015, Globe Land 30 (2010), Global Administrative Areas (2012), refined by the producer. Inset maps: JRC 2013, Natural Earth 2012, GeoNames 2015. Disclaimer N " Products elaborated in this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activity are realized to the best 0 2 ' of our ability, within a very short time frame, optimising the available data and information. All 6 1 N " ° geographic information has limitations due to scale, resolution, date and interpretation of the 0 8 1 2 ' original sources. No liability concerning the contents or the use thereof is assumed by the 6 1 ° 0 0 producer and by the European Union. 8 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 2 Delivery formats are Layered Geospatial PDF, GeoJPEG and vector (ESRI shapefiles, 0 0 2 2 Google Earth KML, GeoJSON). Map produced by CLS released bySERTIT (ODO). For the latest version of this map and related products visit https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR536 [email protected] © European Union For full Copyright notice visit https://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/ems/cite-copernicus- ems-mapping-portal Source: Esri, DigitalGlobe, GeoEye, Earthstar Geographics, CNES/Airbus DS, USDA, USGS, AeroGRID, IGN, and the GIS User Community 73°24'20"W 73°24'0"W 73°23'40"W 73°23'20"W 73°23'0"W 73°22'40"W 668500 669000 669500 670000 670500 671000 671500.
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