Transcript Tsunami
Tsunami - 2004 INTRODUCTION A devastating earthquake of high magnitude has occurred on December, 26, 2004 off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. The resulting Tsunami killed thousands of people in Southern India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, etc. In India, Andaman and Nicobar islands, Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala were worst hit. National Remote Sensing Agency, Dept. of Space, Govt. of India made all possible efforts to monitor this catastrophic event. Satellite data of different resolutions was acquired, analyzed and the value-added information is being disseminated to concerned. The following pictures show some portions of the worst-hit Andaman and Nicobar islands and part of Andhra Pradesh and Chennai coast. You may kindly highlight “Courtesy: National Remote Sensing Agency” while using the images. In the images, red depicts vegetation, white depicts clouds and shades of blue indicate types of water. IRS-P4 OCM Image of 26-December- 2004 North Andaman Surroundings of Andaman and Nicobar Islands as observed from IRS-P4 and IRS-P6 satellites IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 26-Dec-04 Port Blair Camorta Island South Andaman (Rutland Island) Trinkat Island South Andaman Little Andaman ANDAMAN SEA BAY OF BENGAL Nancowry Island Car Nicobar Katchall Island Camorta Island Nancowry Katchall Island Little Nicobar Great Nicobar Tsunami - 2004 A Close View of Trinkat Island IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 26-Dec-04 IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 21-Dec-04 Pre-Event Post-Event Tsunami - 2004 A Close View of Camorta Island IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 21-Dec-04 Pre-Event IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 26-Dec-04 Post-Event Tsunami - 2004 A Close View of Camorta Island IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 21-Dec-04 Pre-Event IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 26-Dec-04 Post-Event Tsunami - 2004 A Close View of Katchall Island IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 21-Dec-04 Pre-Event IRS-P6 AWiFS Image of 26-Dec-04 Post-Event IRS-P6 L4 MX Images showing the situation in the surroundings of Kakinada Port in Andhra Pradesh 12-January-04 Pre-Event Kakinada Bay 27-December-04 Post-Event Kakinada Bay Tsunami - 2004 Part of Chennai City IRS-P6 L4 MX Image of 12-Jan-04 Pre-Event IRS-P6 L4 MX Image of 27-Dec-04 Post-Event Tsunami - 2004 Part of Chennai City IRS-P6 L4 MX Image of 12-Jan-04 Adayar River Pre-Event IRS-P6 L4 MX Image of 27-Dec-04 Adayar River Post-Event Tsunami - 2004 Part of Chennai City IRS-P6 L4 MX Image of 12-Jan-04 Adayar River Pre-Event IRS-P6 L4 MX Image of 27-Dec-04 Adayar River Post-Event Tsunami - 2004 Machilipatnam Area, Andhra Pradesh 18-Dec-2004 Bandar Fort Reserved Forest IRS-P6 AWiFS Data 27-Dec-2004 Bandar Fort Reserved Forest