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Sentinel-2 captured the fault line through Palu, Indonesia

On Sep 28 a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck the city of Palu, in Sulawesi Indonesia. The quake was followed by a tsunami. The animation below shows two Sentinel-2 images before and after the earthquake in Palu. If you look closely you can see the horizontal displacement due to the fault movement through the city. It […]

Dozens of landslides after the 2018 Hokkaido earthquake

An earthquake with magnitude 6.7 occurred on 06 Sep 2018 in Hokkaido, Japan, killing at least 17 people and leaving nearly 3 million households in Hokkaido without electricity. The quake came two days after typhoon Jebi, « the strongest storm of 25 years« .  Below is an image comparison near Atsuma dam lake in the south of Hokkaido, […]