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Do not fill this in! ===Geology=== [[File:Haiti Saut-d'Eau.JPG|thumb|right|[[Saut-d'Eau]] waterfall]] There are [[Thrust fault#Blind thrust faults|blind thrust faults]] associated with the [[Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone|Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault system]] over which Haiti lies.<ref name="USGSHaiti2">{{cite web|url=https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/#summary |title="Magnitude 7.0 – HAITI REGION Tectonic Summary" United States Geological Survey, 12 January 2010 |publisher=Earthquake.usgs.gov |access-date=11 January 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100115110510/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqinthenews/2010/us2010rja6/ |archive-date=15 January 2010 }}</ref> After the earthquake of 2010, there was no evidence of [[surface rupture]] and geologists' findings were based on seismological, geological and ground deformation data.<ref name="Hayes">{{cite journal|last=Hayes|first=G.P. |author2=Briggs R.W. |author3=Sladen A. |author4=Fielding E.J. |author5=Prentice C. |author6=Hudnut K. |author7=Mann P. |author8=Taylor F.W. |author9=Crone A.J. |author10=Gold R. |author11=Ito T. |author12=Simons M.|year=2010|title=Complex rupture during the 12 January 2010 Haiti earthquake|journal=Nature Geoscience|doi=10.1038/ngeo977|volume=3|issue=11|pages=800–805|bibcode = 2010NatGe...3..800H |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/21200/2/ngeo977-s1.pdf }}</ref> The northern boundary of the fault is where the [[Caribbean plate|Caribbean]] [[tectonic plate]] shifts eastwards by about {{convert|20|mm|in|abbr=in}} per year in relation to the [[North American plate]]. The [[strike-slip fault]] system in the region has two branches in Haiti, the [[Septentrional-Oriente fault zone|Septentrional-Oriente fault]] in the north and the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault in the south. A 2007 earthquake hazard study, noted that the Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault zone could be at the end of its seismic cycle and concluded that a worst-case forecast would involve a 7.2 M<sub>w</sub> earthquake, similar in size to the [[1692 Jamaica earthquake]].<ref name="DeMets">{{cite journal|last=DeMets|first=C.|author2=Wiggins-Grandison W.|year=2007|title=Deformation of Jamaica and motion of the Gonâve microplate from GPS and seismic data|journal=[[Geophysical Journal International]]|volume=168|issue=1|pages=362–378|doi=10.1111/j.1365-246X.2006.03236.x|bibcode=2007GeoJI.168..362D|doi-access=free}}</ref> A study team performing a hazard assessment of the fault system recommended "high priority" historical geologic rupture studies, as the fault was fully locked and had recorded few earthquakes in the preceding 40 years.<ref name="18cgc">{{cite web|url=http://www.ig.utexas.edu/jsg/18_cgg/Mann3.htm |title=Entiquillo-Plantain Garden Strike-Slip Fault Zone: A Major Seismic Hazard Affecting Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica |publisher=18th Caribbean Geological Conference |last1=Mann |first1= Paul |last2=Calais |first2= Eric |last3=Demets |first3= Chuck |last4=Prentice |first4= Carol S |last5=Wiggins-Grandison |first5= Margaret |date=March 2008 |access-date=13 January 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100116160020/http://www.ig.utexas.edu/jsg/18_cgg/Mann3.htm |archive-date=16 January 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The magnitude 7.0 [[2010 Haiti earthquake]] happened on this fault zone on 12 January 2010. Haiti also has rare elements such as [[gold]], which can be found at The [[Mont Organisé]] [[gold mining|gold mine]].<ref>[http://www.ute.gouv.ht/caracol/images/stories/docs/environmental%20assessment%20of%20the%20usaidhaiti%20north%20park%20power%20project.pdf ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE USAID/HAITI NORTH PARK POWER PROJECT]. United States Agency for International Development. ute.gouv.ht. June 2011</ref> Haiti has no currently active volcanoes. "In the Terre-Neuve Mountains, about 12 kilometers from the Eaux Boynes, small intrusions at least as late as [[Oligocene]] and probably of [[Miocene]] age are known. No other volcanic activity of as late a date is known near any of the other warm springs."<ref>{{cite journal | last=Brown | first=John S. | title=The Hot Springs of the Republic of Haiti | journal=The Journal of Geology | publisher=University of Chicago Press | volume=32 | issue=5 | year=1924 | url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdf/10.1086/623111 | issn=0022-1376 | doi=10.1086/623111 | pages=384–399| bibcode=1924JG.....32..384B | s2cid=128421492 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page