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Quake Lowers Zipingku Reservoir

his true-color image, captured by Taiwan’s Formosat satellite on June 4, 2008, reveals changes to Zipingku Reservoir behind the dam in the wake of the 7.9-magnitude earthquake of May 12, 2008.


Formosat image © 2008 Dr. Cheng-Chien Liu, National Cheng-Kung University, and Dr. An-Ming Wu, National Space Organization, Taiwan. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published June 7, 2008
Data acquired June 4, 2008

Source:
FORMOSAT-2 > RSI