{"id":639599,"date":"2010-01-15T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/index.cfm?id=2820&dt_code=HLN&obj_id=437&lang=en"},"modified":"2010-01-15T11:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T16:58:11","slug":"haiti-earthquake-first-damage-assessment-in-support-of-relief-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/639599","title":{"rendered":"Haiti earthquake: first damage assessment in support of relief efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/site_images\/thumb_9870.jpg?w=780\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" alt=\"damage assessment for Port-au-Prince\" title=\"Total number of damages or destroyed structures per 200 meters grid cells (click to enlarge)\"><\/p>\n<p>\nMore than 4000 physical structures were destroyed or damaged in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck the country on 12 January 2010. About 2000 residential buildings have partially or totally collapsed and the same number of buildings shows severe damage. A number of critical infrastructures such as government buildings, educational structures and hospitals have collapsed or are severely damaged. These are the preliminary findings of a <a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/index.cfm?id=5620&amp;lang=en\">rapid damage assessment<\/a> carried out by the JRC based on the analysis of very high resolution satellite imagery acquired before and after the disaster.\n<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/dgs\/jrc\/index.cfm?id=5620&amp;lang=en\" title=\"Ha&iuml;ti eathquake January 2009: damage assessment\">&gt;&gt; For additional information and damage assessment maps, see the press pack<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 4000 physical structures were destroyed or damaged in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, by the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck the country on 12 January 2010. About 2000 residential buildings have partially or totally collapsed and the same number of buildings shows severe damage. A number of critical infrastructures such as government buildings, educational structures and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Go7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}