The December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami: Initial Findings on Tsunami Sand Deposits, Damage, and Inundation in Sri Lanka

Damage to Structures

Quicktime VR panorama from photos taken about 100 m inland at the Nalaveli Hotel 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.

If you do not have QuickTime installed on your system, you may download the QuickTime Player.

Download the Quicktime VR panorama file or a static jpeg image:
Right-click, Windows—or click-and-hold, Macintosh—in order to "Save as..."

• Quicktime VR 1.9 MB
• large jpeg 206" x 23" 6.9 MB
• medium jpeg 74" x 8" 567 kb
• small jpeg 37" x 4" 309 kb
• for printing, download a high-resolution jpeg (300 dpi, 18" x 2") 1.6 MB

Please note: this panorama may take a few minutes to download.