Heavy Rainfall Floods Indonesia

Persistent heavy rains led to flooding and landslides throughout Indonesia in late December 2007 and early January 2008, resulting in numerous fatalities and crop losses. The most heavily populated island in the chain, Java, was the hardest hit—at least 112 people died on the island from flooding or landslides.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Heavy Rainfall Floods Indonesia.

NASA image courtesy Jesse Allen based on data provided by the TRMM team. Caption by Steve Lang and Rebecca Lindsey.

Published January 8, 2008
Data acquired December 24, 2007 - January 2, 2008

Source:: TRMM > MPA