January 9, 2005, 8:49 am
Best laid plans.... I try to run a small business and economics blog and 90% of the hits I have gotten over the last 2 days have been on Tsunami before and after pictures. OK, well, I have have been updating the original before and after post with links to people who really are blogging the tsunami and its aftermath. Nature has some amazing before-after satellite shots, including these, which are wider angle views of the original shots I posted:
These shots are chilling, and help explain the death toll better than any single photos I have seen:
Makes me think of Atlantis. Hat tip to the Nature site to Marginal Revolution.
For more before and after images, look here and here and here (in this last link see the powerpoint download in the lower left). This site has a ton of tsunami blog links, including pictures and video. Here is a link-filled roundup (new 1/4) and an older one here, and another here. And here is a dedicated blog. Here is a 1/5 roundup of Indian blog posts about the tsunami and its aftermath. And here is a local blog with news. And here is the Amazon Red Cross donation page.
Update: A more recent roundup as of 1/11 here.
December 30, 2004, 10:21 pm
A whole peninsula, wiped clean. Ugly. Thanks to LGF for the link.
Update: The wider angle view of these photos are even more dramatic - note the new bay where there used to be farms:
More of these side-by-side tsunami before-after photo pairs are here.
Update #2: We are getting a lot of Google hits on this. For more before and after images, look here and here and here (in this last link see the powerpoint download in the lower left). This site has a ton of tsunami blog links, including pictures and video. Here is a link-filled roundup (new 1/4) and an older one here, and another here. And here is a dedicated blog. Here is a 1/5 roundup of Indian blog posts about the tsunami and its aftermath. And here is a local blog with news. And here is the Amazon Red Cross donation page.
December 13, 2004, 9:45 am
Via Gongol, check out this site which is taking 1 gigapixel photos. Look at the bridge in the top photo - it looks pretty detailed, but you are limited by your screen's resolution. Now scroll down as they zoom - until you get all the way into a closeup of a man sitting on the bridge you could not even see in the first photo. Pretty cool.
