Blog Share- Nepal earthquake, Ground Level Rise One Meter. SR 7.8 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on Saturday not only cause casualties and catastrophic damage. The structure of the land surface in most parts of the country go up to about one meter.
Rising ground state located in the Himalayan region have occurred in the capital city Kathmandu. This area became the central point of the earthquake at the time.
The events of this land rise recorded by Sentinel-1a satellite imagery European Space Agency (ESA). Sentinel-1a successfully detect any ground movement Kathamandu from before and after the earthquake, through the radar.
Data from the radar is turned into interferogam, color images are very technical, to show movement after the quake.
Reported by the Daily Mail, Thursday, April 30, 2015, from interferogam analysis showed that the area of 120 x 50 kilometers in Kathamandu land surface rose to 3.2 feet or one meter.
"What skid peak in northeast Kathamandu," said Professor Tim Wright of the Natural Environment Research Council.
Explained, inversely what happened in the northeastern part Kathamandu, on the northern part of the city, seen from the data interferogam decreased soil surface.
Scientists estimate, broken by the earthquake of 7.8 magnitude, has destroyed the eastern region of the epicenter in Kathamandu.
However, despite the rise in the ground, it does not look cracked soil. Seeing these conditions, scientists believe that there is the energy of earthquakes is still hidden and will appear sometime in the future.
Sentinel-1a satellite imagery unknown is the first satellite that has the duty to monitor the Earth's environment. The plan, ESA will re-launch a similar satellite in the next year. The satellites called Sentinel-1b.
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