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Sat Jan-16-10 01:01 PM
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Before And After: Satellite pictures of Port-au-Prince: |
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From DER SPIEGEL. It's in German, but you'll figure out how to do it. These are before and after satellite pictures. Just slide the ruler to the right to see the damage. On the left navigation, you can choose different locations: http://www.spiegel.de/flash/0,,22494,00.html
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:04 PM
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1. Wow. I centered the bar over the cathedral; Night and day. nt |
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:53 PM
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the satellite picture may even have been taken at the same time of day. Check the shadows.
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:58 PM
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13. Possibly within minutes of each other. The time stamp would be interesting. nt |
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:08 PM
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2. Wow. Those are some amazing before and after shots. |
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:58 PM
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11. As another poster here noticed, |
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it pretty much looks like air pictures from WWII after heavy bomb raids.
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:17 PM
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3. It reminds me of aerial photos of WWII saturation bombing over Germany. |
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Only this devastation looks even more complete. Unbelievable.
Good luck to all the world's humanitarian missions trying to get in there and help.
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:59 PM
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14. Yes, it was like looking at Dresden or Hamburg. |
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:46 PM
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4. Thanks for posting this. DER SPIEGEL is a great source. |
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:53 PM
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8. You slide the gray tab on the left over to the right- it took me a while. |
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Sat Jan-16-10 02:00 PM
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15. Initial picture should be before, |
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and then if you slide the ruler to the right, it's after the earthquake. Sorry it's only in German yet.
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:54 PM
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9. Good pictures. It does appear that a lot of the smaller structures survived |
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While the large office buildings, churches, etc were hit pretty hard, what look like smaller, one-story buildings seem to be much more intact. In some cases, you can see collapsed roofs or masonry spilled away from the walls, but in others there is no sign of damage from the photo. Of course there may be structural damage that makes them unsafe, but it seems likely that people got out of many of them without injury.
I'd like to see similar pictures for the hillside slums and for the port facilities, especially for the tank farms. Haiti has no energy resources and imports all its petroleum products.
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Sat Jan-16-10 01:56 PM
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10. Not sure, the resolution isn't that good. |
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But yes, the larger structures are often first to fall. I'm sure they will be newer satellite pictures available soon that show the main damage.
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Sat Jan-16-10 02:01 PM
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16. looking at smaller structures from above, it's hard to tell... |
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especially if they collapsed pretty much straight down.
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Sat Jan-16-10 02:02 PM
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18. Yes, then you'd still make out |
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what would look like an intact roof, even the building under it collapsed. Hard to tell with the resolution available. You can't see cracks in the streets, etc. either.
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Sat Jan-16-10 02:01 PM
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17. the vegetation seems a lot fuller- at least it can provide some shade. |
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