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NASA\/JPL-Caltech<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This interferogram<\/a> shows the ground displacement caused by last week\u2019s earthquakes in southern California. Produced by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it\u2019s based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from JAXA\u2019s ALOS-2 satellite taken both before (16 April 2018) and after (8 July 2019) the earthquakes. Each colour cycle represents 12 centimetres (4.8 inches) of ground displacement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This interferogram shows the ground displacement caused by last week\u2019s earthquakes in southern California. Produced by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it\u2019s based on synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images from JAXA\u2019s ALOS-2 satellite taken both before… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[323,130,1352,12,15],"class_list":["post-1787504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-geology","tag-california","tag-earthquakes","tag-jaxa","tag-nasa","tag-satellite","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1786357,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/10\/mapping-the-sulawesi-earthquake-and-tsunami\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787504,"position":0},"title":"Mapping the Sulawesi Earthquake and Tsunami","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"3 October 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"Last week a magnitude-7.5 earthquake struck the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, triggering a tsunami that struck the city of Palu with far more force than expected. 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