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Hurricane Felix: Natural Hazards
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Hurricane Felix: Natural Hazards
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Category 5 hurricanes are rare. Rarer still is the storm that makes landfall as a www.nhc.noaa.gov/abo utsshs.shtml Category 5 storm -- most weaken before hitting land. Yet, exactly two weeks after Hurricane Dean struck the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 5 storm, Hurricane Felix roared ashore as yet another. Felix came ashore over northeastern Nicaragua on September 4, 2007, with sustained winds of 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour), said the www.nhc.noaa.gov/ National Hurricane Center. Forecasters predicted that Felix would continue to move west over Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Heavy rain in these mountainous regions could trigger devastating floods and mudslides. This area is the same region which suffered major damage from Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Though better prepared this time for such a storm, many fear a repeat of Mitch's devastation.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS ) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured this image of Hurricane Felix at 10:10 a.m. local time (16:10 UTC) on September 4, 2007. At that time, Felix had slammed into the mountains of Nicaragua and lost enough power to be rated a Category 3 hurricane, with sustained wind speeds of 200 km/hr (120 mph). The clear eye present /NaturalHazards/natu ral_hazards_v2.php3? img_id=14483 on September 3 was gone, but the storm retained the tight spiral shape of a very powerful storm.
The large image provided above has a resolution of 250 meters per pixel, MODIS' maximum resolution. The image is available in rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/gallery/?200 7247-0904/Felix.A200 7247.1610 additional resolutions from the MODIS Rapid Response System.
You can download a eoimages.gsfc.nasa.g ov/images/imagerecor ds/18000/18985/Felix .A2007247.1610.250m. kmz 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of Hurricane Felix suitable for use with earth.google.com/ Google Earth.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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Category 5 hurricanes are rare. Rarer still is the storm that makes landfall as a www.nhc.noaa.gov/abo utsshs.shtml Category 5 storm -- most weaken before hitting land. Yet, exactly two weeks after Hurricane Dean struck the Yucatan Peninsula as a Category 5 storm, Hurricane Felix roared ashore as yet another. Felix came ashore over northeastern Nicaragua on September 4, 2007, with sustained winds of 260 kilometers per hour (160 miles per hour), said the www.nhc.noaa.gov/ National Hurricane Center. Forecasters predicted that Felix would continue to move west over Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico. Heavy rain in these mountainous regions could trigger devastating floods and mudslides. This area is the same region which suffered major damage from Hurricane Mitch in 1998. Though better prepared this time for such a storm, many fear a repeat of Mitch's devastation.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( modis.gsfc.nasa.gov MODIS ) on NASA's terra.nasa.gov/ Terra satellite captured this image of Hurricane Felix at 10:10 a.m. local time (16:10 UTC) on September 4, 2007. At that time, Felix had slammed into the mountains of Nicaragua and lost enough power to be rated a Category 3 hurricane, with sustained wind speeds of 200 km/hr (120 mph). The clear eye present /NaturalHazards/natu ral_hazards_v2.php3? img_id=14483 on September 3 was gone, but the storm retained the tight spiral shape of a very powerful storm.
The large image provided above has a resolution of 250 meters per pixel, MODIS' maximum resolution. The image is available in rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov/gallery/?200 7247-0904/Felix.A200 7247.1610 additional resolutions from the MODIS Rapid Response System.
You can download a eoimages.gsfc.nasa.g ov/images/imagerecor ds/18000/18985/Felix .A2007247.1610.250m. kmz 250-meter-resolution KMZ file of Hurricane Felix suitable for use with earth.google.com/ Google Earth.
NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, rapidfire.sci.gsfc.n asa.gov MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.
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What -- Earth
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What -- Earth
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Where -- Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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What -- Terra
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What -- Terra
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Where -- Guatemala
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Where -- Guatemala
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Where -- Honduras
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Where -- Honduras
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Where -- El Salvador
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Where -- El Salvador
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Where -- Salvador
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Where -- Salvador
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Where -- Nicaragua
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Where -- Nicaragua
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Earth
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Terra
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
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Salvador
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El Salvador
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Honduras
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Guatemala
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Nicaragua
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felix_tmo_2007247
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felix_tmo_2007247
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gwilliam@archive.org
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gwilliam@archive.org
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2011-08-02 08:20:14
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2011-08-02 08:20:14
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2011-08-02 08:20:14
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2011-08-02 08:20:14
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creator:
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/felix_tmo_2007 247/felix_tmo_200724 7_lrg.jpg
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file:/home/lunaadmin /Source_download/201 108/1/felix_tmo_2007 247/felix_tmo_200724 7_lrg.jpg
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felix_tmo_2007247_lr g.jpg
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felix_tmo_2007247_lr g.jpg
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date:
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2007-09-04
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Public Domain
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Public Domain
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year:
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2007
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eng
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