Gressier is a municipality in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement

Port-au-Prince Arrondissement

Port-au-Prince is an arrondissement in the Ouest Department of Haiti.It has 2,109,516 inhabitants.Postal codes in the Port-au-Prince Arrondissement start with the number 61.-Communes:...

, in the Ouest Department

Ouest Department

Ouest is one of the ten departments of Haiti. It is the jurisdictional seat of the national capital, the city of Port-au-Prince. It has an area of and a population of 3,093,698 . It borders the Dominican Republic to the east.It is the second largest department in Haiti after the Artibonite...

 of Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

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It has 25,947 inhabitants.

2010 7.0 earthquake

A UN assessment team estimated that 40 to 50 per cent of the buildings in Gressier were destroyed in the 12 January 2010 earthquake

2010 Haiti earthquake

The 2010 Haiti earthquake was a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake, with an epicentre near the town of Léogâne, approximately west of Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. The earthquake occurred at 16:53 local time on Tuesday, 12 January 2010.By 24 January, at least 52 aftershocks...

. The "court of the peace" building was destroyed in the tremblor.

Japanese troops will be deploying to Gressier and the surrounding region, in February. The troops, 350, will be mostly engineers, to help with demolition and reconstruction, with some earthquake building experts to examine structures. The first 160 troops are leaving for Haiti on 6 February 2010.

External links

• Reuters, "Gressier atlas of building damage assessment", 26 February 2010