The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Initial Findings on Tsunami Sand Deposits, Damage, and Inundation in Sri LankaDamage to StructuresQuicktime VR panorama from photos taken about 100 m inland at Kalmunai on Sri Lanka's east coast. The USGS logo is centered in the direction of the beach. QuickTime VR directions: pan and zoom around the photo by clicking your mouse and dragging left & right, and up & down. With your mouse positioned on top of the photo, hold down the shift key to zoom in, or the control key to zoom out. Near the two greenish boats that are side-by-side, the man in the photo looks strange—this is because, while the photos were being taken, he was standing in one picture and kneeling in the other. Splicing the two images together makes him look quite odd! Also, note that another man, wearing the brown pants and light pinkish beige shirt, appears in this panorama more than once; this is the result of his moving around to be in the picture as two different sections of the panorama were taken. In his second appearance, he also turned around while the pictures were being taken, so his body appears blurry. If you do not have QuickTime installed on your system, you may download the QuickTime Player. View a small, static JPEG image of the panorama. Download the Quicktime VR panorama file or a static jpeg image:
Please note: this panorama may take a few minutes to download. |
http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/tsunami/srilanka05/panorama2VR.html
maintained by Laura Zink Torresan
last modified 14 February 2005 (lzt)