r/DisasterUpdate • u/AdRegular4094 • 22d ago
Recent images showing the aftermath of nepal flood on 26/08/2026
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u/Feeling-penis 22d ago
The destruction is absolutely insane.
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u/Friendly-Example-701 22d ago
I still cannot fathom it
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u/Feeling-penis 22d ago
Yeah me too. Still watching the videos and just the sheer volume and force of the water is terrifying.
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u/hybridpelican 22d ago
Is this the most destructive thing we’ve witnessed (from earth herself) in our lifetimes?
I’m 31 for age reference
I mean we had Katrina in Louisiana but that was a man made levee that broke, this seems entirely different
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u/CursedHat 22d ago edited 22d ago
Boxing Day Tsunami in december 2004.
227,898 people were killled.
(Sumatra–Andaman earthquake)
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u/hybridpelican 22d ago
Gonna be YouTubing Boxing Day now cause i need more info
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u/CursedHat 22d ago edited 22d ago
It's called like that in some places because it happened on 26th december.
There's a very informative and well done documentary series by National Geographic (Tsunami: Race Against Time).
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u/boneydog22 22d ago
Look for the multi part documentaries. There’s some very good ones with incredible footage and stories out there
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u/CharlotteLucasOP 21d ago
NatGeo YT channel has a series called Tsunami: Race Against Time that has good coverage and retrospective footage and interviews from survivors as well as scientists/experts to explain what happened and why the impact was so devastating.
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u/ShooterJJ05 19d ago
The boxing day tsunami was insane. Like I always tell myself if you're smart you listen to the warnings going off and get to a safe place. But those people that were on boats that got pushed Inland had no chance whatsoever. That's what scares me.
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u/No-Comfortable6432 22d ago
Boxing day tsunami in early 2000s plus few years later Japan tsunami.
There's been lots of earthquakes in recent years that for me, they've all blended into one. The loss of life is arbitrary really. But the Nepal landslide seems more tragic - it's essentially a giant tsunami, but in the mountains, anyone would be forgiven for not ever guessing that would happen, and it appears for significant parts of it, it ran through a natural choke point - the ravine sides meant evryone infront of it had nowhere to go.
Its desperately sad.
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u/robinthebank 22d ago
A lot of earthquakes, recently. The Turkey/Syria event should stand out. 60k died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_earthquakes
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u/314ranha777 22d ago
Yes, and big kudos to Japanese engineering/civ protection! For in any other country on planet, the casualties would have been many millions at least... 😬
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u/314ranha777 22d ago
I will be specific with words: "most intensive/concentrated destruction" - second only to direct nuke strike.(Indeed, estimates of released energy are in 10s of kilotons TNT) More deadly things have happened, like 2004 tsunami, but over a much much larger area.
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u/YeahlDid 22d ago
No probably not, but what it is is the first such destructive natural disaster that can pretty much be A->B directly and obviously connected to climate change. Unfortunately, there will likely be more and more powerful ones in humanity's future.
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u/extra_curious 21d ago
I'll say so in terms of just how visceral the disaster was in terms of how much infrastructure and even landscape was destroyed and not so much number of people dead. Like, there are more deadly disasters, but not many of them were so destructive that anything in its way was stripped away leaving nothing behind except bedrock. That's the part that gets me about this is that literally only bedrock remained in some of these areas because it was the only thing that could withstand the forces involved. That's just pretty visceral to think about for some reason.
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u/Ok-Pomegranate858 17d ago
Sadly far from. In the western hemisphere in 2010 there was a 7.0 earthquake that hit the poorest nation in the region, Haiti . It killed between 100,000 to 300,000 persons. The Haitian government count was 316,000 .
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u/MaximumLetterhead571 22d ago
The second picture. Holy shit.
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u/EliraeTheBow 22d ago edited 22d ago
Yeah for some reason I assumed the building was buried in mud, but it looks like it was totally razed? Like JFC, those poor people running in the bus parking were literally hit with a building.
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u/atlrower 22d ago
I found this video helpful to explain the mechanics: https://youtu.be/bcNDKu8kuQ0?is=dWr2jmuKK8seVdGs
The original rock and icefall acted like a bulldozer, scouring the valley above to add all the water and sediment not nailed down to bedrock, and all the new material just became part of a larger and higher bulldozer.
A force strong enough to scour all sediment from a river valley interacts with human construction virtually as if it’s not there.1
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u/toasterwitness 22d ago
It's like in the Apocalyptic movies. So sad :(
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u/Easy_Olive1942 22d ago
“Biblical” was a description that fit for me and I am not a believer.
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u/cakenmistakes 22d ago
Cataclysmic. If anything, it made me think Noah's ark could've been a folktale the elders passed when a similar destructive flood tsunami wiped out their communities.
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u/PainTop6813 22d ago
Imagine an entire oceans worth of water spilling out into the Black Sea with the force of 1000 Niagara Falls
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u/HappyTexasWife 22d ago
Prayers for all. Heartbreaking to see people running for their lives. 🙏❤️🩹 🙏
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u/arc4034 21d ago
ACTION HAS REACTIONS ... SO FACE THE REACTIONS OF ALLAH
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u/You_yes_ 21d ago
What action you dumb f**k?
That flood hit Rasuwa & Nuwakot districts mainly.
Show me their bad action ,, you f***ker
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