An image acquired by the Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer on NASA's Terra spacecraft on October 11, 2005, depicts a 30-kilometer (19-mile) wide region southeast of the epicenter of the magnitude 7.6 Pakistan earthquake on October 8, 2005, between Muzaffarabad and Uri in the Pir Punjal range of Kashmir. The center of the original image is at about 34 degrees, 13 minutes North; 73 degrees, 42 minutes East.

A large landslide (about 2 km x 1.5 km of hillside collapsed) is visible in this close-up 3d view. It shows that the landslide has blocked the flow of a small river and risen to the far side of the valley thereby blocking a second river. In the coming weeks and months the two streams will form upstream lakes until they breach the natural dam formed by the landslide. Depend whether this is sooner or later the size of the downstream flood will be modest or catastrophic to people in the downstream valleys. A number of smaller landslides are also visible, mostly along the main river and other valleys.

Landslides are common features of Himalayan earthquakes ansd some consider them to be one of the primary agents for mountain erosion. The 1950 earthquake in the much wetter Assam end of the Himalaya resulted in dozens of catastrophic floods that brought a surge of Himalayan sediments down the Brahamputra valley in the following few decades.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/tiff/PIA03030.tif