A GeoEye-1 satellite has captured pictures of Haiti following the devastating earthquake, as the satellite moved from north to south over the Caribbean at a four miles per second. As the LA Times has reported, the structural damage to the country was dramatically worsened by the lax and antiquated building codes, not to mention the fact that many of the buildings were made from concrete filled with sand, to cut costs.
The images were taken yesterday at around 10:27 AM Eastern Time, from an altitude of 423 miles in space. Now, GeoEye and Google Earth are sharing the full bank of images. For some of the worst scenes of devastation taken over Port-au-Prince, see below.
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Images via GeoEye
Tags: Destruction, haiti
Only in the first before/after photos can one see the destruction. The others have too low of a resolution to konw what’s what (like a building without a roof or walls).
[...] posted the second article, showing some before and after satellite imagery of Haiti, provided by Google and [...]