{"id":37038,"date":"2025-10-30T15:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/satellite-images-of-jamaica-before-and-after-show-the-destruction-from-hurricane-melissa\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T15:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T15:11:10","slug":"satellite-images-of-jamaica-before-and-after-show-the-destruction-from-hurricane-melissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/world\/satellite-images-of-jamaica-before-and-after-show-the-destruction-from-hurricane-melissa\/","title":{"rendered":"Satellite images of Jamaica before and after show the destruction from Hurricane Melissa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vantor satellite images showed significant destruction in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, which hit the island's southwest coast with wind speeds of nearly 298 km\/h. About 400,000 people were affected, and damages are estimated at $7.63 billion, which is more than a third of the country's GDP.<\/p>\n

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The scale of the destruction left by Hurricane Melissa as it swept through Jamaica is now being revealed by the first satellite photos, writes UNN with reference to Sky News.<\/p>\n

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On Tuesday, the storm's epicenter hit the island's southwest coast, 120 kilometers from the capital, Kingston.<\/p>\n

Before and after images from Vantor satellites show the impact of winds of nearly 298 km\/h on the town of Black River, the administrative center of St. Elizabeth Parish.<\/p>\n

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The damage is significant. Some homes and businesses have lost their roofs, while others have been completely destroyed.<\/p>\n

The covered food market lies in ruins. As does St. John's Anglican Church, one of the oldest in Jamaica \u2013 only its bell tower remains.<\/p>\n

Further along the coast is the fishing village of White House.<\/p>\n

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The streets have turned into piles of debris. The wind has stripped the leaves from the trees.<\/p>\n

Western Jamaica is the country's breadbasket, important for food production.<\/p>\n

But the fields are underwater, flooded by up to a meter of rainfall that fell as the massive storm system passed.<\/p>\n

On the northwest coast is the resort of Montego Bay.<\/p>\n

The container terminal and oil storage tanks at the port were inundated by storm surge and surrounded by water.<\/p>\n

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An estimated 400,000 people in Jamaica have been affected by the hurricane.<\/p>\n

And the cost of the destruction is enormous. Analysts at Enki Research estimate the bill at $7.63 billion. This is more than a third of Jamaica's GDP. It will take months and international support to get Jamaica back on its feet, the publication notes.<\/p>\n

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Vantor satellite images showed significant destruction in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa, which hit the island's southwest coast with wind speeds of nearly 298 km\/h. About 400,000 people were affected, and damages are estimated at $7.63 billion, which is more than a third of the country's GDP. The scale of the destruction left by Hurricane Melissa […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-37038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}