On November 12th, 2017 a magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck near the Iran and Iraq border. Just 5 days later, the Sentinel-1B satellite imaged the area effected. Using this data in combination with similar data taken on November 11th by its sister satellite Sentinel-1A, this interferogram was created by the Alaska Satellite Facility. the colorized image shows the crustal change resulting from the quake, with the epicenter at middle of the concentric deformation rings. Copernicus Sentinel data 2017, processed by ESA

InSAR

Differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) is used to measure displacements on Earth’s surface to a precision of a few centimeters or less….