MAP: China earthquake lake and river map (satellite image)
11 Jun 2008
Source: NASA
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Draining Tangjiashan Lake was expected to cause a flood wave downstream, and there was a risk that this flood wave could cause substantial damage, including additional landslides. On June 10, 2008, China's Xinhua news agency reported that the flood wave safely passed through the city of Mianyang, which lies far downstream from the drained lake.
Pigs are walked on a street by vendors after their market was flooded, at the township of Fengkai in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong June 18, 2008. China suffers floods, ...
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