Pakistan's Staggering Floods Seen From Space: Big Pics
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Aug. 20, 2010 -- Before floods came to Pakistan this summer, this is what the city of Risalpur looked like from orbit. This image was taken in August of last year:
On August 5 of this year, in the midst of some of the worst monsoon rains the country has ever seen, this was the scene:
It's hard to overstate devastation of this magnitude. The United Nations now estimates that 20 million people have been affected by what Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called a "slow-motion tsunami."
The weather is expected to improve over the next few days, but flood waters remain high, and outbreaks of cholera, typhoid, and other diseases threaten the vulnerable population.
Images courtesy of GeoEye.
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