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PAKISTAN-WEATHER-FLOODS
A combination of pictures released by the Nasa on August 9, 2010 and taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Aqua satellite shows images captured on August 8, 2010 (top), and July 18, 2010 (bottom). The images show the lower Indus River, not far from Pakistan’s coast. Both images use a combination of infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. Water appears in varying shades of blue. Vegetation is green and bare ground is pinkish brown. Clouds range in color from pale blue-green to bright turquoise. After devastating northwestern Pakistan, floodwaters traveled down the Indus toward the coast in early August 2010. The river overflowed into its floodplain in Punjab and Sindh Provinces as authorities evacuated thousands of residents in Sukkur and other cities. Pakistan's devastating floods cut off parts of the country on August 9, 2010 and hampered aid efforts to 15 million people as the United Nations likened the scale of the crisis to the 2005 earthquake. AFP PHOTO - NASA EARTH OBSERVATORY = RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE
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