Google recently updated the 'historical imagery' layer in Google Earth and we have done a series of posts on the various interesting sights: Wildfires in the US More US wildfires, US floods and a … [Read more...]
The Kaikoura Earthquake Landslides
November 21, 2016
On November 14, 2016, the South Island of New Zealand experienced a 7.8 magnitude earthquake named the Kaikoura Earthquake after the town of Kaikoura near the quake's epicentre. The affected region is … [Read more...]
More Italian earthquakes and the Google Earth earthquake layer not updating
November 2, 2016
Italy has again suffered a series of earthquakes, with the largest occurring this past Sunday, October 30th, 2016. The earthquakes were centred just north west of the locations of the August … [Read more...]
Post-earthquake Kumamoto in Google Earth 3D
September 27, 2016
In April this year, the city of Kumamoto, Japan, suffered a series of large earthquakes. Google managed to capture aerial imagery of the city essentially during the event, after the first major event … [Read more...]
Italy’s earthquake
September 7, 2016
As of this writing, Google has not updated 'historical imagery' for almost three months. Up until mid-June they had been updating it almost weekly. As a result, there have been a lot of events over … [Read more...]
The Kumamoto earthquakes
May 11, 2016
Google has been pushing out imagery updates almost weekly recently. The latest update includes imagery from Kumamoto, Japan, which suffered a series of large earthquakes in April, 2016. Google has … [Read more...]
What’s that image: Earthquake and floods
May 3, 2016
Yesterday we mentioned that Google had pushed out an imagery update towards the end of April. Today we are having a look at some of the sights we have found so far. On April 16th, 2016, Ecuador … [Read more...]
The Oklahoma Earthquakes
March 29, 2016
Starting in 2009 the state of Oklahoma has seen a dramatic increase in seismic activity. According to Wikipedia, it has gone from an average of less than two 3.0+ Mw earthquakes per year to hundreds … [Read more...]
Surface deformation after Chile earthquake
September 25, 2015
On September 16th, 2015 a magnitude 8.3 earthquake struck just off the coast of Chile. It was more energetic than the Nepal Earthquake earlier this year, but resulted in far less casualties because … [Read more...]
New Nepal Imagery following May 12th Aftershock
May 22, 2015
Last week we talked about the new imagery in Google Earth following the April 25th Nepal earthquake. On May 12th Nepal experienced a major aftershock consisting of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake. Just … [Read more...]