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Satellite Spots Massive Tonzang Landslide

Heavy rainfall from tropical storm Komen triggered a large landslide in Myanmar (Burma).


NASA Earth Observatory images by Jesse Allen, using EO-1 ALI data provided courtesy of the NASA EO-1 team and Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. The seismological data used for the detection and analysis of the landslides were collected by the Global Seismographic Network. Caption by Adam Voiland, with information from Colin Stark (Columbia University), David Petley (University of East Anglia), and Gö ran Ekström (Columbia University).

Published November 8, 2015
Data acquired October 23, 2015

Sources:
EO-1 > ALI
Landsat 8 > OLI