Friday, May 23, 2008

Imagery for Sichuan, China Earthquake

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http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2008/05/imagery-for-sichuan-china-earthquake.html

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 which you can view by downloading the KML file.

N.B. 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.


http://earth.google.com/gallery/images/small/china_quake_sm.jpg

http://earth.google.com/gallery/images/large/china_quake_lg.jpg

Open in Google Earth