Posted on 01/13/2005 6:06:52 AM PST by NavyCanDo
Landsat 7 Images Show Scale of Tsunami Damage.
Indonesia's island of Sumatra suffered from both the rumblings of the underwater earthquake and the tsunamis that followed on December 26, 2004. Within minutes of the quake, the sea surged ashore, bringing destruction to the coasts of northern Sumatra.
The earthquake that created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth's rotation. Using data from the quake, NASA scientists calculated the earthquake decreased the length of day, slightly changed the planet's shape, and shifted the North Pole by centimeters
Images on the web-site below show natural-color images from Landsat 7's Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) instrument shows a small area along the Sumatran coast in Aceh province where the tsunami smashed its way ashore. In this hard-hit region, the wave cut a swath of near-total destruction 1.5 kilometers (roughly one mile) in most places, but penetrating farther in many others.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/lookingatearth/Landsat_Tsunami.html
Big damage. Thanks for the post.
Interesting.....thanks.
It really show the stupidity of man to build resorts atop silt beds in a river delta.
Not much different that the resorts and homes that have been built along the barrier islands, on active faults, or on hillsides prone to collapse in CA.......
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