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- brainlessI can understand that this is not the exact location where the floods actually happened. But I am sad and I am frustrated and I am angry.We had floods in Sikkim, which is practically a "stone throw" away from a world-level map point of view. I was there then. There was past research but everyone was so surprised. Activists talking about that event 10 years prior. Published reports.Yet, we do nothing to move people away. To pause and think what the hell is going wrong. Just keep hustling and pretend shit is not going to go wrong. I am tired of our* culture.our: all of us, I am not only talking about India, Nepal or China here.
- trompetenaccoun>simulated worst-case outburst events from these lakes both in the Tibetan town of Nyalam and downstream at the border with NepalFor context that's not where the flood happened, there's a massive mountain range in between those vallies reaching over 8000m (Shishapangma).In earth science there are thousands of worst case scenario models published, but it's hard to actually predict reality.
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- haunterThe Scablands were terraformed by a series of GLOFs (Glacial lake outburst flood) like this when deglaciation started at the end of the last ice age. Just imagine it on a thousand times bigger scale>During the last deglaciation that followed the end of the Last Glacial Maximum, geologists estimate that a cycle of flooding and reformation of the lake lasted an average of 55 years and that the floods occurred dozens of times over the 2,000 years between 15,000 and 13,000 years ago. U.S. Geological Survey hydrologist Jim O'Connor and Spain's Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales scientist Gerardo Benito have found evidence of at least twenty-five massive floods, the largest discharging about 10 cubic kilometers per hour (2.7 million m³/s, 13 times that of the Amazon River).https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channeled_Scablandshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floodsAlso it's interesting if you start reading about Native American flood stories, these were not just tales or legends but telling actual historic events that the ancestors experienced.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods#Early_flood_st...
- vmh1928Near Juneau, Alaska, USA, the Mendenhall glacier has repeatedly, over the last few years, had a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood. Not nearly as catastrophic as the one in Nepal but it did flood areas near Mendenhall River in Juneau. The latest event was August 13, 2026.https://www.weather.gov/ajk/suicidebasin
- inasioReminded me of the Huascaran avalanche (1970, killed approx 30K people) [0]. I'm surprised this is not also in the thousands of casualties (perhaps it'll get there) [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Huascar%C3%A1n_debris_ava...
- alkonautIs it possible to avoid these risks in mountainous areas? How many people are living in valleys downstream from lakes with these risks?If one simply concluded that with current climate changes, it's not safe for humans to live under that risk, how many villages and cities would find themselves uninhabitable all of a sudden?
- ChrisMarshallNYI remember in Africa, in the late 1960s/early 1970s, being taught in social studies, that Ethiopia was at risk for famine. They discussed that many farmers raised sheep and goats, which have a drastically different impact on the environment, than cattle (it has to do with how they eat grass -they pull it out by the roots, while cattle clip it).Not long after that, Ethiopia was in the news for... anyone?Lots and lots of ignoring scientists. Nothing new here.Cassandra
- jvanderbotI believe this is how the Hudson Bay was formed, in what must have been quite a sight.
- madaxe_againThe debris flow that has just happened doesn’t appear to be a glacial outburst.Rather, the entire front face of a glacier at high elevation sheared off, likely millions of tonnes of material at least, crashed down a steep runnel, slammed into the opposing slope on the other side of the valley at the bottom, made that partially collapse, dammed the river for several minutes, and then all descended at high speed as the dam failed, with the results we see.Some reportage is still saying there was an earthquake - there wasn’t - the landslide itself was the source of the seismic waves.https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000tbwb...
- yolo3000Reminded me of this documentary I saw last year - https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/122807-000-A/arte-reportage/ . I thought it was the same lake
- sreanRemember Orion and Rockyhttps://www.dogmanray.com/true-stories/orion/https://greatergood.com/blogs/news/heroic-dog-rocky-saves-63...It would have been more apt if his name was Sirius.Sadly it's not uncommon to see teenage and young men groups to seek out puppies and pregnant strays to stone to death in Himachal and Uttarakhand (two states in Himalayan India). Properly vaccinated they can be protectors.
- metalmanGLOF, glacial lake outburst flood.exceptionaly brutal cctv footage from the tibet/nepal border, so many people that there is a tiny chance that perhaps one of them was tossed clear, but of the rest there will be no remains. other videos shows that the flood "water" is so thick with mud that it is sheering off in sheets and one more shows it ripping out a concrete bridge that then floats away on top. *disturbing videohttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rIVNeDuCF_k
- mandeepjIn the future, don't go close to mountains during monsoon season - late May to August end; that period is specifically for Southeast Asia. For the rest of the world, you can find it out.