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Destructive Floods Afflict Tanzania

Exacerbated by El Niño, heavy rains in spring 2024 caused severe flooding in Tanzania’s Rufiji district, among other areas in eastern Africa.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Destructive Floods Afflict Tanzania.

NASA Earth Observatory images by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey and MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

Published May 1, 2024
Data acquired May 5, 2023 - April 29, 2024

Sources:: Landsat 8 > OLI; Landsat 9 > OLI-2; Terra > MODIS