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Power Outages from the 2025 Burma Earthquake (Night Lights)

Black Marble Night Lights - 2025 Burma Earthquake
deformation NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. Before-and-after night-time light maps around Mandalay, Burma showing massive power outages caused by the 2025 earthquake.

How it's made. Built from NASA's Black Marble night-lights data, which measures light glowing from Earth at night.

How & where you'd use it. Helps responders see where power went dark to locate the hardest-hit areas after the quake.

What's measured

burmanightlights

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2025-03-23 → 2025-03-29
  • Spatial extent89.236, 19.77, 100.091, 30.312
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Measure ground motion and subsidence (InSAR)
  • Track earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides
  • Map elevation and terrain change
Official description

NASA's Black Marble Night Lights dataset for before and after the 2025 Burma earthquake shows massive power outages in the Mandalay area.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("burma-eq-night-lights")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).