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“Unusually heavy monsoon rains inundated southern Pakistan in the summer of 2011, submerging fields and forcing residents from their homes. On September 29, 2011, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported that 5.44 million people had been affected, 1.8 million residents had been displaced, and 2.1 million acres of cropland had been damaged.” Quoted from the NASA image release.
Earth Observatory has a satellite image pair that shows before and after images of flooding near the cities of Thatta and Sujawal, Pakistan. Sujawal and surrounding lands suffered severe flooding.
Tags: australia, earth-observatory, flooding, geology-news, Geology.com, marcellus-shale, mexico, pakistan, pennsylvania, philippinesAccording to an article in the Christian Science Monitor the recent flooding in Pakistan is having a greater impact upon Pakistani people than the 2005 earthquake.
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