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A Growing City and a Deadly Landslide

Downpours triggered Freetown’s deadly August mudslide, but decades of development in mountainous areas beyond the city set the stage for the disaster.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Adam Voiland.

Published December 5, 2017
Data acquired January 3, 1986 - November 8, 2017

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 8 > OLI