credits:
Jacques Descloitres/MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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Indian Ocean Tsunami Damage around the perimeter of the Andaman
Islands.
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Jesse Allen, NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER
Science Team
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Exposure of the reef around Ranongga Island in the Solomon
Islands after a 2007 earthquake lifted the land.
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credits:
Chen Ji, California Institute of Technology Seismological
Laboratory
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Plate uplift and downdrop around the epicenter of the Indian
Ocean Tsunami
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credits:
Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory/MODIS Rapid Response team/Goddard
Earth Sciences DAAC
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A trimline -- or deforested area -- around the coast of Sumatra
created by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
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credits:
Joseph Trainor,University of Delaware, Disaster Relief Center
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Destroyed houses, a well, and laundry in Sri Lanka after the
2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami.
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credits:
NGDC/Pierre St. Amand
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Farm fields inundated by a tsunami and land subsidence after the
1960 Chilean earthquake
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credits:
NGDC/Pierre St. Amand
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Farm fields inundated by a tsunami and land subsidence after the
1960 Chilean earthquake
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credits:
U.S. Geological Survey
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Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. The stumps in the foreground
are part of an ancient forest on Latouche Island in Prince William Sound
that was submerged below sea level and buried in prehistoric times.
Tectonic uplift of 9 feet during the earthquake raised these stumps
above sea level once again, demonstrating that the area is tectonically
restless.
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credits:
U.S. Geological Survey
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Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. These spruce trees on a gravel
spill on Resurrection Bay on the Kenai Peninsula are in an area which
tectonically subsided 3 feet during the earthquake. The subsidence
dropped the shallow roots of these trees below high tide, where they
were killed by repeated inundation in salt water.
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credits:
U.S. Geological Survey
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Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Uplifted sea floor at Cape
Cleare on Montague Island in Prince William Sound in the area of the
greatest recorded tectonic uplift on land (33 feet). The very gently
slopping flat rocky surface with the white coating which lies between
the cliffs and the water is about a quarter of a mile wide. The white
coating consists of the remains of calcareous marine organisms that were
killed by desiccation when the wave-cut surface was lifted above high
tide during the earthquake.
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credits:
U.S. Geological Survey
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Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Hinchinbrook Coast Guard dock,
raised above all but the highest tides by regional uplift in Prince
William Sound. Land in this area rose about 8 feet during the
earthquake.
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credits:
U.S. Geological Survey
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Alaska Earthquake March 27, 1964. Large ground crack with
vertical displacement on the Kenai Lowland. Thick deposits of sand
border the left side of the crack. Photo by H.L. Foster, 1964.
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credits:
U.S. Geological Survey
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Tsunami deposits of sand over soil in Papua New Guinea after the
1998 tsunami.
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credits:
U.S. Navy photo By Photographer's Mate 1st Class Jon Gesch
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the Banda Aceh coast remains flooded six weeks after the
tsunami of 2004
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