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A Picture is Worth... Myanmar Before and After Cyclone Nargis

by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 05. 8.08
Science & Technology

myanmar before and after cyclone nargis
Image courtesy of NASA/MODIS

These photos, which vividly capture the scope of the tragedy that befell Myanmar (or Burma), were taken by NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS), the Terra satellite's visual-infrared instrument. The U.N. estimates that over 1.5 million individuals may have been affected by Cyclone Nargis; over 100,000 are feared to be dead.

Via ::Scientific American: Myanmar Cyclone: Before and After (news website)

Comments (5)

Maybe I'm looking at this wrong...did they loose that much land mass? That's like, NY, Florida, and Cali right there!

This is appalling.

jump to top Emily says:

Uh, no, that land area is nowhere near the size of any of those states - more like Rhode Island.

By the way, it's "lose", not "loose."

jump to top BenSchiendelman [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

Wow, Snarky correction!

I wish someone could figure out a way to get food and stuff to the most helpless. That is the acute concern right now.

Myanmar lied and 500,000 people died.

Shameful. This would be a good time for someone to overthrow the disjointed jjunta. It would be just reward for what they did to the monks. Of course, there would be just probably be more evil anyway.

Good Luck,
vsk

jump to top vsk says:

While saying "That's like, NY, Florida, and Cali right there!" is a huge over statement. Calling it the size of rhode island isn't exactly right either.

You could probably fit 10 or 15 rhode islands on there.

Terrible though.

jump to top Matt says:

Is it bigger than a bread box?

jump to top Kenny says:

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