Tsunami from space

Pictures from space show an angle not apparent in videos

Watching videos of the tsunami (usually taken by people who are running for their lives) it’s hard to grasp how deep the destruction went.  The coastline was changed so profoundly it’s obvious at a glance… from space.  Just click on the picture to go to Nature Online’s collection of satellite pictures.

In 1968 my dad took me to Charles City, Iowa to see the tornado devastation.  I remember thinking how much it looked like bombed villages in Vietnam.  Now the imagination conjures up thousands of Charles Cities…

Also check out this essay, What’s really important on UTI.  I hadn’t thought of this:

Deep under the now scenic, placid blue seas of southeast Asia, a geological horror is forming of gargantuan proportions. One which will leave its novel signature for eons in the rocky column. A new layer of strata has been laid down, but this deposit is uniquely macabre. It’s a hominid bone-bed. Mixed in with the newly forming sandstones, limestones, shales, and chalk, are the remains of a civilization. Homes, trees, crops, cars, factories…

Posted by George on 01/11/05 at 05:52 AM
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