A Little "CSI" of the now-famous "Flaming Tsunami"
by
, 03-12-2011 at 06:13 AM (13576 Views)
Most of you by now, have probably seen a videoclip of the horrific "Tsunami On Fire", part of devastating tsunami waves that slammed into Sendai/Miyagi province yesterday. If you have not seen it, the video can be viewed here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTwnxVIlWss (advance to 6 minutes, 11 seconds).
I wanted to know where this exact spot is...and after about 10 minutes of Wikimapia and Google Earth searching, eureka.
Here is a screenshot of the area as seen from the YouTube video...
Next, I rotated and tilted the same area in Google Earth, and produced this image...
Finally, to those who only have a browser and want to confirm this, here's the wikimapia.org link to the exact spot
http://wikimapia.org/#lat=38.1763383...2&z=18&l=0&m=s
lat=38.1757605
lon=140.9404492
And here's my snapshot of the same area in Wikimapia.org...
Yellow circles are my cues (swimming pool, blue roofed building and triple greenhouse).
Now they have no choice but to hire me to locate nuclear silos!
UPDATE:
I have managed to locate all the areas shown in that particular youtube video posted above. I have estimated the helicopter pilot was flying around the area with a circling radius of about 2-3 kilometers at an altitude of between 700-1200 ft.
-RODION