The earthquake occurred as a result of oblique-reverse faulting on an 80 km (50 mi) section of the Enriquillo–Plantain Garden fault zone, 125 km (78 mi; 67 nmi) west of the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, consistent with its location and the observed focal mechanism.
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2 Nippes, Haiti, earthquake: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99MYPXK. ISSN 2331-1258 (online). Page 5. iii. Acknowledgments.