Posted on 12/29/2004 6:52:55 AM PST by bedolido
The imagery below was taken by the DigitalGlobe Quickbird satellite. It shows a portion of the Southwest coast of Sri Lanka, and was taken on Sunday Dec. 26, 2004, at 10:20am local time, slightly less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact.
Due to the aftermath of lethal tsunamis the Government of Sri Lanka declared a state of national disaster. In Sri Lanka, many hotels along the southern and eastern coastal areas were damaged and are not operating normally. Tourists in coastal areas have been evacuated to hotels in Colombo.
Kalutara is a resort town located approximately 40km south of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital. Kalutara is semi-urban and has a mixture of literates and illiterates in the population.
Once an important spice-trading center, the city's name is derived from the Kalu Gang River (Black River). In the 11th Century, the town was made temporarily made a capital on the orders of a South Indian Prince. The region was later planted with coconut trees, whose by-products are used for both internal and external trade. The location also boast fortifications dating back from the times when Portuguese, Dutch and British vied for control of the area.
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Awesome power of nature.
This photo and many more have posted here on the Freeps.
This is the first photo that I've seen. Are there others? Also, did these people have any forewarning?
nikos
Interesting. You can see the arched waves and their reflections off the beach and the superposition of two such direct and reflected waves in the photo.
there's one other at the website listed
there are images from Quickbird posted here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1310094/posts
Wow. Just...wow
awesome this is really gone help with my report for school i like all the detail it shows
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