Chilean Earthquake: MODIS Pictures of Santiago - Before and After

Haze lingered over the metropolitan area of Santiago, Chile, following a magnitude 8.8 earthquake on February 27, 2010.

In an image from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite at 14:25 UTC, black smoke hung over the northern part of the city, while light-colored haze (perhaps pollution and/or dust) covered the southern part of the city and filled a canyon that cuts eastward into the mountains.

Picture of a clear Santiago taken from the ISS before the Chile earthquake. This image, acquired on February 23, shows the city and surroundings under clear-sky conditions.

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