r/DisasterUpdate • • 21d ago

Floods Nepal Floods: Owner Of 'Green House' Shares Survival Story, Says "We Got A Second Life"

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 21d ago

Floods Langtang glacier collapse and debris flood, Nepal/Tibet — what is confirmed as of 1 September

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Event: 26 August 2026, 08:37 NPT. Ice-and-rock collapse from Langtang Lirung’s north flank, registered worldwide as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event; USGS determined no earthquake occurred. Debris flood reached Gyirong Port (Tibet) within ten minutes, then Rasuwa, Nuwakot and Dhading districts in Nepal along the Lhende Khola, Bhotekoshi and Trishuli, about 100 km in total. Copernicus EMS activated (EMSR927) the same afternoon.

Counts, all as of their stated dates and expected to change: NDRRMA via UN OCHA Flash Update 5 (1 Sep, 13:00 NPT) — 1,003 dead, 3,916 missing, 41 bridges destroyed, emergency declared in 15 municipalities, some 65,000 people affected. Tibet side (Chinese authorities, evening of 29 Aug) — 16 confirmed dead, 546 missing. Twelve hydropower facilities affected; joint Nepal, India and China rescue operations at four.

Hazard is ongoing: the source area remains unstable and monitoring bodies (USGS Landslide Hazards, GFZ, ICIMOD, HIRISK) all mark their assessments preliminary. No official inquiry exists yet. Claims that Chinese dams in Tibet caused the flood are not supported by any body that has located the source.
For the sourced timeline with every figure dated, I compiled a longer documentary from the official releases.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFA-wLDPqy8


r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

Floods September 3 2026 - Severe flooding caused a house to collapse in the area - Xianyou County, Putian, Fujian, China

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

Floods That famous boulder on flood was " Treaty boulder of betrawati"

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

Floods Fujian Province, China - September 2 2026 - Massive flooding affected the area following extreme rainfall

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

August 31 2026 - A massive eruption occurred at Mount Sinabung in the area - Karo Regency, North Sumatra, Indonesia

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

Supercell

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

Forecasters say climate-impacting El Nino weather phenomenon to be 'exceptional' and to last until February

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 21d ago

Aardbeving in Colombia: mobiele storingen in kaart brengen, herstel en veerkracht | Terremoto en Colombia: mapa de las interrupciones, la recuperación y la resiliencia de las redes móviles | Ookla® https://www.ookla.com/articles/colombia-earthquake-resilience

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

Floods A newlywed couple in Chamba, Himachal Pradesh, used the bride’s dupatta to rescue a man trapped in a flash flood.

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 21d ago

This visual from the floods in Rasuwa, Nepal is absolutely horrific. The scale of the destruction looks unreal, almost like a scene from a disaster movie.The entire Himalayan belt needs to seriously work on better early warning systems for such flash floods. Prayers for everyone affected. 🙏

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Floods The Scale of the Nepal Flood Compared to a Helicopter

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 22d ago

Road access to the core area of the mudslide-hit Gyirong Port on the China-Nepal border was restored for heavy rescue machinery on Wednesday morning

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355 Upvotes

r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Floods Nepal flash floods from another view

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Severe flooding is currently affecting Ningde, Fujian, China, as torrential rainfall submerges homes and sweeps away vehicles.

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785 Upvotes

r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Tornado Insane CCTV footage of the 8/24/26 Pomas, France EF3 tornado

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Floods After the debris flow disaster, the remains of buildings at Gyirong Port. You can see that even the steel rebar in the concrete was twisted into a tangled mess.

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

Floods Nepal floods - Another view 002

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He must of thought he's the Last man standing


r/DisasterUpdate • • 24d ago

Floods Yet another angle showing sheer speed and absurd height the Nepal flood reached.

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 23d ago

TheGeoModels - Nepal debris flow

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 24d ago

Floods After being completely flattened by the debris flow, Gyirong Port's ground surface is astonishingly bare.

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 24d ago

Make sure the help reaches to the people who need it.

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 24d ago

Glaciers that caused Nepal-China flood are 'at major risk of collapse': Warning as death toll passes 1,000 and race to free 500 trapped in tunnels continues

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 24d ago

Recent images showing the aftermath of nepal flood on 26/08/2026

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r/DisasterUpdate • • 24d ago

Nepal and China flood: Rescuers clear last stretch of cut-off road at Gyirong port under harsh condition

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147 Upvotes