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This series of images, captured by Taiwan’s Formosat-2 satellite, shows the formation of one such lake (Yansai Lake) in Beichuan County, one of the most severely affected quake regions. The lake was forming in a mountain valley upstream of the small city of Beichuan.
 
Source of image: Formosat image © 2008 Dr. Cheng-Chien Liu, National Cheng-Kung University and Dr. An-Ming Wu, National Space Organization, Taiwan. Caption by Holli Riebeek.