Three images of the same section of land are stitched together horizontally. The feature of the images is the Chilcotin River in it's natural state, a narrow seafoam colored water meandering slightly across the landscape, then breaching its banks as it is blocked by a landslide, and eventually the landslide giving way, the river very brown with sediment and the width of the river between the first two as it returns to equilibrium.

Chilcotin River’s Landslide Lake Begins Draining

Erosion-resistant glacial sediment in the landslide deposit limited the extent of flooding downstream. View the full story

Credits: NASA Earth Observatory/Wanmei Liang
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TakenAugust 9, 2024
Image CreditNASA Earth Observatory/Wanmei Liang
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