Showing posts with label christchurch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christchurch. Show all posts

Monday, 7 March 2011

Earthquake from space

New Zealand's Christchurch as seen through the Japanese spacecraft Alos. It shows the movement on the day the 6.3 tremor killed 160 people and destroyed the cities foundation.   

The colour bands shows movement towards and from the satellite, you can see that the centre of the quake hit right under Christchurch.