#NASA IMAGES TSUNAMI PLUS#

Side by side comparisons of Aceh coast (areas outlined in red above) before and after the tsunami.Įach image shows a 10 kilometer square area. When a magnitude 9. 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. The images offer several unique views of portions of the affected region. The eruption brought powerful tsunami waves and heavy ashfall to islands in the nation of Tonga. Newly released imagery from three NASA spaceborne instruments sheds valuable insights into the Indian Ocean tsunami that resulted from the magnitude 9 earthquake southwest of Sumatra on December 26.

#NASA IMAGES TSUNAMI PLUS#

(+ Read More: NASA Details Earthquake Affects on the Earth.)īelow, this pair of 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. 15, 2022, a powerful explosive eruption from the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga Hunga Ha-apai lofted volcanic ash and gas high into the stratosphere and sent atmospheric shockwaves and tsunami waves around the world. It has nine cameras, all pointed in slightly different directions. 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. MISR (the Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer) is a NASA tool that watches for tsunamis from space. The earthquake that created the huge tsunami also changed the Earth's rotation.

Within minutes of the quake, the sea surged ashore, bringing destruction to the coasts of northern Sumatra. NASA on Sunday shared artist Nima Abkenars illustration of a. Indonesia's island of Sumatra suffered from both the rumblings of the underwater earthquake and the tsunamis that followed on December 26, 2004. NASA shares pic of tsunami formed by gas escaping supermassive black holes gravity.

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