1. Latest Meteorological Satellite Imagery: Northern Indian Ocean

This page provides satellite images around South East Asia to South Asia, including Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, Sri Lanka.

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• View on Google Earth (Latest Image)
• View on Google Earth (Latest 24-Hours Animation)

2. Cyclones (Tropical Cyclones)

In the northern Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal, cyclones give large impacts on India and Bangladesh. Information about cyclones can be found on the following page.

• Cyclones in the Bay of Bengal

3. About Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami

This page was originally started as a response to Indian Ocean Earthquake. On December 26 2004 at 00:58:53 UTC, 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake caused devastating tsunamis exceeding the height of 30 meters at maximum, which resulted in nearly 300,000 people who are either killed or missing, and a few million people are now suffering from the disasters of an unprecedented scale. Furthermore, tsunami-affected areas are more vulnerable to natural hazards than before, and it is concerned that heavy rainfall and cyclones may cause another disaster. This situation motivated me to start a special page that provides meteorological satellite images of the northern Indian Ocean area for the monitoring of weather in this area.

Meteorological satellite images in this page is an infrared (gray-scale) satellite image observed by GOES-9, which is then overlayed on Blue Marble data provided by NASA. We should be aware, however, that the area of South East Asia, India and Sri Lanka is very close to the boundary of GOES-9 imagery, hence the effective resolution is much coarser than the central area. The most suitable meteorological satellite of this area is METEOSAT-5, which is located at 63E above the equator.

• Magnitude 9.0 - SUMATRA-ANDAMAN ISLANDS EARTHQUAKE OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA

  Earthquake information summarized by the United States Geological Survey (USGS).

  http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/2004/usslav/

• DigitalGlobe | QuickBird Images of Tsunami Sites

  Analysis of the damage of tsunami using QuickBird satellite images.

  http://www.digitalglobe.com/tsunami_gallery.html

• Space Imaging :: Tsunami Gallery

  Comparison of before/after the tsunami using QuickBird satellite images.

  http://www.spaceimaging.com/gallery/tsunami/

• Spot Image - Asia Tsunami observed by SPOT

  Images of tsunami and before/after of the earthquake created from SPOT satellite images.

  http://www.spotimage.fr/html/_167_240_241_781_.php

• ORBIMAGE : Tsunami Series

  Images of before and after the tsunami taken by OrbView-3 satellite.

  http://www.orbimage.com/news/featuredimage.html

• International Charter "Space and Major Disasters" - Tsunami, Sri Lanka

  Maps and satellite images about tsunamis in Sri Lanka. Also available for maps and satellite images in southern Asia.

  http://www.disastercharter.org/disasters/CALLID_078_e.html

• Tsunami Disaster in Asia, 2004

  Satellite images of tsunami affected areas by the National University of Singapore.

  http://www.crisp.nus.edu.sg/tsunami/tsunami.html

• USDOC/NOAA/NESDIS/NGDC - Tsunami Information, Dec 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Magnitue 9.0 Earthquake

  The analysis of earthquake data and satellite images by National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC).

  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/spotlight/tsunami/tsunami.html

• EO Natural Hazards: Earthquake Spawns Tsunamis

  Various satellite images and other data related to tsunamis.

  http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=12657

• Waveofdestruction.org

  Photos and Videos from the aftermath of the Asia Tsunami.

  http://www.waveofdestruction.org/

• Flickr: Photos tagged with tsunami

  Tsunami-related photographs gathered at Flickr.

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/tsunami

• Citadel of Bam, Iran: Keeping Memories to Get over the Earthquake

  Sumatra Earthquake occurred coincidentally on the one year anniversary of the southeast Iranian Earthquake (Dec. 26, 2003), which completely destroyed the city of Bam. The reconstruction of Bam is still a long way to go.

  http://dsr.nii.ac.jp/bam/