National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency: U.S. Aerial Imagery Helps Ecuador Mitigate Erosion Catastrophe
March 06, 2024
March 06, 2024
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, March 6 -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency issued the following news on March 5, 2024:
San Rafael Falls was Ecuador's tallest at 430 feet. It ceased to exist in 2021. An upstream riverbed collapsed in 2020, diverting the river through a sinkhole below the falls and eventually destroying the natural lava dam that supported it.
"A lava-dam collapse of this scale was previously known only in the prehistoric sense," said USGS Re . . .
San Rafael Falls was Ecuador's tallest at 430 feet. It ceased to exist in 2021. An upstream riverbed collapsed in 2020, diverting the river through a sinkhole below the falls and eventually destroying the natural lava dam that supported it.
"A lava-dam collapse of this scale was previously known only in the prehistoric sense," said USGS Re . . .