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A Deadly Debris Flow in India

The torrent of debris from a mountain in the Himalaya devastated remote valleys in Uttarakhand.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Adam Voiland, with information from Dan Shugar (University of Calgary) and Christopher Shuman (NASA GSFC/UMBC JCET).

Published February 23, 2021
Data acquired January 20 - February 21, 2021

Sources:
Landsat 8 > OLI
Space Shuttle > SRTM