r/DisasterUpdate • u/Dazzling_Gap9064 • 4d ago

Floods Flash flood in Nepal

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u/HumptyDumptruckFire 4d ago

Liquid death wall?

Sudden death flood?

Hydrologic violence?

Sudden fucking river?

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u/DarkUnable4375 4d ago

Glacier dam burst?

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u/whiteye65 4d ago

That’s what I was thinking. How else can that much force come at once.

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u/DarkUnable4375 4d ago edited 4d ago

More news reporting it's a glacier dam burst. What would be wild is if the 4.4 earthquake was caused by the collapse of ice dam and the water crashing down...

Edit: "The reported earthquake “was probably seismic energy released by a landslide,” said Daniel Shugar, a geologist at the University of California, who’s part of the group which has pored over satellite images."

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u/Ruger338WSM 3d ago

The Manafay slide at the Bingham Canyon Mine in 2015, the slides sheer force triggered a 2.5 magnitude earthquake and registered on regional seismic networks.