{"id":6,"date":"2010-09-24T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T01:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/24\/remarkable-nasa-imagery-of-catastrophic-flooding-around-manchhar-lake-in-pakistan\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T13:35:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:35:01","slug":"remarkable-nasa-imagery-of-catastrophic-flooding-around-manchhar-lake-in-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2010\/09\/24\/remarkable-nasa-imagery-of-catastrophic-flooding-around-manchhar-lake-in-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable NASA imagery of catastrophic flooding around Manchhar Lake in Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA have provided the most dramatic evidence yet of the catastrophic floods that are occurring around Manchhar (Manchar) Lake in Pakistan (see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/wp-content\/scripts\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com.bouncer.php\/daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/pakistan-flood-update.html\">my post yesterday<\/a> on this issue).&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=46003\">This image was captured<\/a> by the ALI instrument on 18th September:<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Manchhar-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Manchhar-3.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Compare this with an<a href=\"http:\/\/earthobservatory.nasa.gov\/NaturalHazards\/view.php?id=45828\"> image taken of the same area<\/a> just three days earlier:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Manchhar-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Manchhar-4.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Or the Google Earth image of the same area, which was collected in May this year:<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Manchhar-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2010\/10\/10_09-Manchhar-5.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.geo.tv\/9-18-2010\/71564.htm\">Geo-TV, an independent TV station in Pakistan, reports<\/a> that some of the breaches that are causing these floods are now 1 km wide, whilst <a href=\"http:\/\/english.ntdtv.com\/ntdtv_en\/ns_me\/2010-09-23\/634593431445.html\">NTDTV<\/a> notes that the number of people displaced by this most recent component of the floods may be as high as 250,000.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>The breaches have allowed the water level in the main body of the lake to fall slightly, bringing some relief elsewhere, but with new areas continuing to experience flooding that is not cause for much overall cheer.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA have provided the most dramatic evidence yet of the catastrophic floods that are occurring around Manchhar (Manchar) Lake in Pakistan (see my post yesterday on this issue).&nbsp; This image was captured by the ALI instrument on 18th September: Compare this with an image taken of the same area just three days earlier: Or the Google Earth image of the same area, which was collected in May this year: Geo-TV, &hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,9,11,10,8],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-debris-flood","tag-manchhar","tag-nasa","tag-pakistan","tag-satellite-imagery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}