Dark Nights in Antakya
An animation showing the amount of light emitted by Antakya’s city center and surrounding communities before and after the earthquake.
On February 6, 2023, magnitude 7.8 and 7.5 earthquakes hit southern Türkiye and northwestern Syria, causing significant losses of life and destruction to infrastructure. Antakya, the capital of Türkiye’s Hatay Province, was hit especially hard. Data from satellites show that after the quakes, much of the region lost electric power.
These maps show the amount of light emitted by Antakya’s city center and surrounding communities before and after the earthquake. The left map shows the area on February 4, 2023; the right map shows the same area on February 8.
The maps come from the Black Marble HD product, provided by Eleanor Stokes and Ranjay Shrestha of the NASA/USRA Black Marble science team. The maps are based on data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) sensor on the NASA-NOAA Suomi NPP satellite. The basemap was built from data collected by the Landsat 9 satellite.
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Credits
Please give credit for this item to:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
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Visualizer
- Lauren Dauphin (SSAI)
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Writer
- Kathryn Hansen (SSAI)
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Animator
Release date
This page was originally published on Friday, April 7, 2023.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, November 15, 2023 at 12:45 AM EST.
Datasets used in this visualization
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Black Marble (Black Marble: Next Generation) [Suomi NPP: VIIRS]
ID: 1176Earth at night imagery
Credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA GSFC.
This dataset can be found at: https://visibleearth.nasa.gov/images/144898/earth-at-night-black-marble-2016-color-maps/144947l
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