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Haiti’s Accidental City

After a catastrophic earthquake left Port-au-Prince in a shambles, many people flocked to the new city of Canaan in search of a better life.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published June 1, 2020
Data acquired February 28, 1986 - February 24, 2020

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8