The government are sending two airplanes to do aerial mapping to capture the impact of earthquake. Will see if it is possible to get access to the image.
-Iyan On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 4:53 AM, Andrew Buck <[email protected]> wrote: > Earlier today there was a 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Indonesia the > epicenter is the link below. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=4.6978&mlon=96.6871&zoom=16&layers=M > > Although 6.1 is reasonably powerful, Indonesia experiences many > earthquakes and so the damage from this one is somewhat moderate. Current > reports are between 20 and 100 fatalities so far with some people displaced > from collapsed buildings. The response will likely be local and not > involve the international community, but we have started mapping roads in > the areas just as a precaution, and we continue to monitor the situation. > > Earthquakes such as this can be the precursor to a later, much larger, > aftershock. So a bit of mapping now might be very useful if a later such > earthquake does occur. Right now the focus is on roads, and bridges. Some > building tracing of key buildings (large buildings, mosques, etc) is > useful, but complete building coverage is probably overkill. > > The larger town of Takengon to the east of the epicenter suffered minimal > damage, but this is the nearest larger town, so it may be worth tracing > streets there if this becomes a disaster response headquarters. > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=4.6234&lon=96.8518&zoom=14&layers=M > > -AndrewBuck > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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