NASA shows topography of tsunami-damaged Japan city
Saturday, March 12, 2011 - 10:40
in Earth & Climate
The topography surrounding Sendai, Japan is clearly visible in this combined radar image and topographic view generated with data from NASA's Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) acquired in 2000. On 11 March a magnitude 8.9 earthquake struck offshore about 130 kilometres east of Sendai, the capital city of Japan's Miyagi Prefecture, generating a tsunami that devastated the low-lying coastal city of about 1 million residents...