2010年1月12日(当地时间,译者注,下同),沿海地Enriquillo-Plantain Garden断裂带(EPGFZ)的一部分区段发生了走滑型地震。当美国普渡大学(Purdue University)地球与大气科学系地球物理学教授Eric Calais首次得知有关此次地震的消息时,他马上意识到这是一次浅源地震,其震级大、震 January 12, 2010 (local time, translator’s note, the same below), a part of the Coastal Enriquillo-Plantain Garden Fault Zone (EPGFZ) section of the strike-slip earthquake occurred. When Eric Calais, a professor of geophysics at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at Purdue University in the United States, first learned of the earthquake, he immediately realized that it was a shallow earthquake with a large magnitude