[SDI-AsiaPacific] flooding in Pakistan (MODIS imagery shows before and after)

[Kate Lance]

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/NaturalHazards/natural_hazards_v2.php3?img_id=14354
The two storms caused extensive flooding in the country’s southwest from the Arabian Sea coast to the border with Afghanistan. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) captured this image of flooding in near the Indus River on July 2, 2007. 

In the area shown here, more than 100,000 people were displaced when 800 villages were submerged by floods, said Relief Web. As of July 4, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies estimated that approximately 300 lives had been lost throughout Pakistan, and 550,000 people had been displaced.


       
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