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Land displacements of the Italian earthquake

2009/04/16 Kortabitarte Egiguren, Irati - Elhuyar Zientzia

A few days ago there has been an earthquake in the center of Italy, which has shaken the city of L´Aquila. The interferogram collected by the Italian organization IREA-CNR shows how the earth moved during this earthquake (a type of satellite image). The satellite was located at an angle of 23 degrees and received images before and after the earthquake. With each of the color circles they have represented the displacement or deformation of the earth, each of them represents a displacement of 2.8 cm in the direction of the satellite.

Image: Image: IREA-CNR

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