Figure 1| Field observations of the cyclone Nargis storm surge in Myanmar, which made landfall on 2 May 2008. a, NASA MODIS Rapid Response imagery with a UNOSAT fiood overlay (in red) modified based on ground reconnaissance; storm track and categories are shown in yellow. b, Measured stormsurge and storm-wave heights for the region between 94 and 96 E, compared with the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami heights (see Supplementary Table 1). c, Recorded mortality and residential destruction rates in the region between 94 and 96 E (see Supplementary Table 2). Measurement accuracies:±0.1 m for vertical measurements and±0.3 m for wave-height estimates.