translated from Spanish: Tsunami in Indonesia: the aerial images that reveal the extent of the destruction after the disaster

five days after a powerful earthquake and reach tsunami or sacudieran the city of Palu, Indonesia, will begin to broadcast images showing the true scale of the devastation.
Copyright of the imagenDIGITAL GLOBEImage captionEl tsunami swept away roads and buildings in some areas close to the city of Palu.El death toll in the area amounted to more than 1,300, according to data from the Agency’s disaster response of the country.
The Red Cross estimated that more than 1.6 million people were affected. United Nations estimated at 200,000 the number of people who need emergency aid.
The damage assessment carried out by the EU, Copernicus, emergency mapping service estimates that up to 3,000 buildings were damaged or destroyed in the disaster.
Image captionEl Copernicus mapping service captured the extent of damage in the city of Palu. In red, the destroyed buildings. Amber, the damaged buildings. And blue, possibly affected structures. Many people were on the beach in a festival when the great wave, half an hour after the quake hit.
Copyright of the imagenGETTY IMAGESDerechos of the imagenAFPImage captionEn author this image taken from a Government aircraft could see a mosque completely surrounded by water.
Entire neighborhoods, as that show it then Balaroa, were inundated with mud.
Some estimates say that 1,700 homes were sucked in Balaroa and hundreds more in another district of Petobo. Among the dead were about 30 students from a Christian Bible study group.
Saturated sand and silt began to behave like a liquid under the growing pressure of the earthquake and the mass began to slide, taking front buildings and infrastructure.
Copyright of imagenDIGITAL GLOBEEsta Hill was covered in mud after the licuefaccon caused by the sliding of Earth and sediment.
What is the the liquefaction of the soil, the phenomenon that causes that the “Earth melts” after copyright of the imagenREUTERSEl earthquake tsunami swept away all the usual services in the city of Palu.
There is little running water, electricity, food or water. Safety is a growing problem. Transportation routes are blocked, hindering the rescue efforts.
Copyright of imagenDIGITAL GLOBEEl bridge Jemalam, of 126 metres in length, which connects nearly 350,000 people in the West of the city with the Eastern, is destroyed.
Copyright of the imagenDIGITAL GLOBELa people search the rubble anything that may have been saved from the disaster.
Copyright of the imagenGETTY base objects as plastic sheets or cooking utensils can mark the difference IMAGESIncluso.
Copyright of the imagenAFPMuchos of the dead were buried in mass graves. But there are fears that more bodies under the rubble there are.
Copyright of the imagenGETTY IMAGESEl army took control of the airport to deliver aid by air and transport those who are more serious.
Thousands of people are waiting to be able to take a commercial flight out of Palu.
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