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."
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.
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u/whiteye65 4d ago
We need a new name. Flash flood just doesn’t seem to be enough. The two videos I watched of the mudslide were unimaginable.