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Asian Tsunami Imagery
Sri Lanka

The imagery below was taken by the DigitalGlobe Quickbird satellite. It shows a portion of the Southwest coast of Sri Lanka, near Kalutara, and was taken on Sunday Dec. 26, 2004, at 10:20am local time, slightly less than four hours after the 6:28 a.m. (local Sri Lanka time) earthquake and shortly after the moment of tsunami impact.


Andaman Tsunami - Sri Lanka
Additional close-up of waves following the immediate aftermath of the tsunami on a portion of the Southwestern coast of Sri Lanka, near Kalutara.
(Image source: DigitalGlobe)



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