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Satellites Provide Close-up View of Nargis Floods in Burma

Image copyright Geoeye/CRISP-Singapore
> Larger image The scene to the right captured by the Ikonos satellite on May 7, 2008, illustrates the complete devastation Cyclone Nargis brought to Burma when it barreled ashore on May 3. This tiny village was located about 27 kilometers (16 miles) south of Yangon, the country’s largest city. In the lower image, taken on May 3, 2002, trees and buildings line a single street, which is surrounded by fields of crops, probably rice. After the disaster, the trees and buildings are completely gone, replaced by messy piles of rubble. The fields are largely submerged under brown and green floodwater. The tiny canal that ran alongside the village on the left side of the image has disappeared into a wide, brown river. A faint curving line outlines the canal’s banks within the new river.

> Read more on Tropical Cyclone Nargis

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Typhoon Rammasun Intensifying in Open Waters Far South of Japan

Credit: NASA/JPL The latest typhoon in the western Pacific Ocean is Typhoon Rammasun. Rammasun means "god of thunder" in the Thai language. Its winds are thundering at a sustained 80 knots (92 mph) with gusts to 100 knots (115 mph).

Rammasun developed from an area of disturbed weather between Micronesia and the eastern Philippines slowly early Wednesday, May 7.

> Read more about Typhoon Rammasun

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