A landslide in the Hunza Valley of northern Pakistan on 10 January buried the village of Attabad, destroying 26 homes and killing 20 people. It also blocked the Hunza River, creating a seven-mile lake that inundated several villages and submerged three miles of the Karakoram Highway. Dark rock covers the river in the upper left corner of the image and the turquoise v-shaped lake stretches out behind the slide. Near the temporary lake, the Karakoram Highway is a faint meandering line of pale brown.
Photograph: ALI/EO-1/NASA
The Guardian
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