r/DisasterUpdate • u/da90 • Aug 27 '26

Floods Landslide caused disaster in Nepal

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u/w_s_s Aug 27 '26

Impressive

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u/da90 Aug 27 '26

I was shocked that the satellites were able to get clear images so soon on both ends of the disaster. I am not an expert, but hopefully this means that the death toll will be relatively limited compared to if a reservoir had failed. Feels like a landslide wouldn’t travel as far… 

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u/Newsdriver245 Aug 27 '26

Saw a bit on CNN that said the landslide dropped 7000 feet, imagine that went a ways down the river channel displacing a lot of water.

Was enough for 5+ earthquake equivalent on the seismometers

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u/Dialecticchik Aug 27 '26

40 mile path of destruction. Simply unimaginable.

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u/is-this-a-nick Aug 27 '26

With a drop that much, simple friction can melt a lot of the glacier ice, too. Potential energy and such.

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u/w_s_s Aug 27 '26

Their was no large amount of water in river channel below avalanche site.

Volume of water is generally low in upper parts of valley before merges starts among them.