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Mapping Kamchatka Earthquake Displacement

A group of satellites with interferometric synthetic aperture radar makes it possible for geologists to detect how much and where land surfaces shift due to earthquakes.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Mapping Kamchatka Earthquake Displacement.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using data provided by the ARIA team at NASA/JPL-Caltech. The displacement map is based on Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and ALOS-2 data from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). NISAR illustration courtesy of the NISAR project. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published September 15, 2025
Data acquired August 2, 2025

Sources:: ALOS-2 > PALSAR-2; Illustration; Landsat 8 > OLI; Model