Sunday, August 8, 2010

First image from the Gansu landslide

Xinhua has now published an image, apparently taken using a mobile phone, of the landslide in Chengguan town:

It is now clear that the landslide affected Zhouqu town, which is shown on the Google Earth image below:


Unfortunately, high resolution images are not available on Google Earth for this area.  These two Panoramio photos give a good idea of what the town and adjacent mountains are like:




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