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GF-2 Detected Massive Landslides Triggered by Haiti

Source:spacewill  Date:2021-08-30

At 08:29:09 EDT on 14 August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck the Tiburon Peninsula in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. It had a 10-kilometre-deep hypocenter near Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, approximately 150 kilometers west of the capital, Port-au-Prince. At least 136,800 buildings were damaged or destroyed and fatalities were estimated at 2,207 as of August 22, 2021.

Locations of users who felt this quake in Haiti (BBC map)

Landslides appeared south of Pic Macaya National Park following the earthquake in southwestern Haiti. GF-2 satellite detected many massive landslides in this area. A few scenes are clipped as follows:

Location: 18.38225714° N, 73.96576971° W, imaged by GF-2 satellite, August 18, 2021

Location: 18.33537400° N, 73.97856398° W, imaged by GF-2 satellite, August 18, 2021

Location: 18.33300240° N, 73.96110472° W, imaged by GF-2 satellite, August 18, 2021

Location: 18.27832039° N, 73.95039002° W, imaged by GF-2 satellite, August 18, 2021

 

About GF-2

GF-2 (short for Gaofen-2) was launched on August 19, 2014. This satellite has collected 14.3 million square kilometers imagery of Earth land surface. It is a very high-resolution optical imaging satellite with 0.8 m panchromatic and 3.2m multiple spectral resolution. The width of one pass at nadir is 45 km. The imagery has widely applied for governmental services, marine surveillance, precision agriculture and forestry, emergency management, education and research.