Satellite Images of Damage in Port-au-Prince: BIG PICS
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The full extent of the damage from this week's magnitude 7.0 earthquake in Haiti is starting to come into view. These first satellite images of downtown Port-au-Prince show a city in ruins.
Above, the National Palace has suffered catastrophic damage; buildings around the palace have been flattened by the quake. People are streaming through the streets; there is little to no car traffic.
The image below shows Stade Sylvio Cator, a 30,000-seat soccer stadium about half of a mile south of the National Palace. People have gathered on the field and set up a small tent city in one of the only places they know is safe: an open area away from any structure that could collapse on them.
This last image is of the area just northwest of the National Palace. Collapsed buildings dot the area, littering the streets with debris. Another encampment is visible in a town square.
Northwest of Rue Borgella (curved diagonal street), the small, ramshackle structures of the Fort National district take over. It's difficult to say from this image how extensive the damage is in among these densely packed, low-rise buildings.
GeoEye Satellite Images, acquired by GeoEye-1 satellite Jan. 13, 2010, 10:27 am EST. Resolution is 0.5 meters per pixel. North is up in all images.
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