The devastating floods in Pakistan were caused by monsoon rains that were ten times the norm, the European Space Agency said and published satellite images of the sprawling lake formed by the flood of the Indus River.

And she pointed out that she “used data from the European Union’s Copernicus satellite to determine the size of the flood from space and help rescue efforts,” noting that “monsoon rains, more than ten times the norm since mid-June, have inundated more than a third countries so far.

The agency released satellite imagery showing the area where the Indus River flooded, “which effectively created a long lake tens of kilometers wide” between the cities of Dera Murad Jamali and Larkana. Floods in Pakistan since June have claimed hundreds of lives, washed away patches of farmland, destroyed crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes.