File:Deadly landslide in jade mine - Hpakant, Kachin State, Myanmar.jpg

English: On 2 July a massive landslide caused at least 162 fatalities amongst miners that were working in a jade mining site in the state of Kachin, in Myanmar. A landslide triggered by heavy rain sent a wave of mud and rock towards jade pickers working in the pits. Myanmar is the world's largest producer of jade, and even if dangerous landslides occur almost every year during the rainy season in the vast mining sites in Kachin state, last month's landslide was the deadliest on record. This image shows the mine site impacted by the landslide as captured by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 3 August, when the first cloud free view of the scene since the day of the accident has been acquired. It is clearly visible that the rock and mud from the landslide poured into the lake formed as a consequence of strong rains typical of the monsoon season. The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, which is composed of two twin satellites, Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B, provides multispectral imagery with 13 different spectral band at a maximum spatial resolution of 10m. These multispectral data allow to implement effective landslide mapping applications with a combined processing of images capturing the area of interest before and after the landslide event.