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Imagery for Sichuan, China Earthquake
May 15, 2008
Posted by Wei Luo, Technical Lead Manager, Google Earth
An earthquake of a magnitude of 7.9 hit Sichuan, China on May 12, with its epicenter about 50 miles northwest of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan. According to the latest
news reports
, authorities fear that as many as 50,000 people could have lost their lives. We now have post-earthquake imagery from our satellite providers; as of this morning, we have processed the first set of satellite imagery from
Formosat2
. You can see the imagery by downloading
this KML
into Google Earth. We will keep updating the KML as we receive and process more satellite imagery. Save the KML to your "My Places" to see the imagery updates.
The first scenes captured the rescue effort to assess and repair dam damage near Dujiangyan City (北川上游围堰) after the quake.
Special thanks to
NSPO,
Taiwan's national space agency, for their quick action and providing imagery.
Update (5/21, 11am):
We've added new pre- and post-earthquake imagery to
this KML
since we first posted it last Thursday, including:
WorldView-1
scenes from
DigitalGlobe
[Images (c) 2008 DigitalGlobe]
More
Formosat2
imagery [Images (c) 2008 NSPO]
TerraSAR-X radar imagery
from
DLR
/
Infoterra GmbH
[Images (c) DLR/Infoterra GmbH 2008]
SPOT Image
post-earthquake Imagery [Images (c) 2008 Cnes/Spot Image]
SPOT Image
pre-earthquake Imagery [Images (c) 2008 Cnes/Spot Image]
IKONOS
pre-earthquake Imagery from
GeoEye
[Images (c) 2008 GeoEye]
To refresh the content, right click on the layer name and choose "Refresh".
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