Palu Landslides Linked to Rice Irrigation

An earthquake in Indonesia made the land flow like mud in a place where science previously said it shouldn't.

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NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using data courtesy of Bradley, K. et al. (2019) and topographic data from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM). Story by Michael Carlowicz, with reporting from Esprit Smith and Carol Rasmussen, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Shireen Federico, Nanyang Technological University.

Published November 1, 2019
Data acquired 2018

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