Michael Oskin, UC Davis
The claim is that this is the most precise image of a post-earthquake landscape. In the image, blue means the earth has descended, and red shows upward movement compared to a 2006 survey. For this study, scientists from the United States, Mexico and China over a period of just three days scanned about 140 square miles effected by the the magnitude 7.2 tremor in northern Mexico in April, 2010, which killed four people and injured 100.
“This sort of earthquake happens out of the blue,” said Michael Oskin, geology professor at the University of California at Davis and lead author on the paper. But with more maps like this one, we could have a little more heads up.
