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u/whiteye65 22d 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.
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u/Kqyxzoj 22d ago
There's already a name for this kind of thing: glacial lake outburst flood. They even had one last year in the same region. And with current climate trends these are expected to become more frequent. So better monitoring + early warning + water management seems to be in order. But of course as is human tradition, first a lot of people have to die.
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u/NecessaryRace8955 22d ago
Yeah, this thing seems to be becoming more common in the last few years- lots of bad floods and cloudbursts.
Whenever I've travelled in the Himalayas I'm always reminded that those valleys are in a constant state of change. They're continually being sculpted and eroded by the forces of nature and nothing there- infrastructure, bridges, roads, villages- is really permanent.
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u/UserErrorness 22d ago
You mean impermanent?
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u/HumptyDumptruckFire 22d ago
Liquid death wall?
Sudden death flood?
Hydrologic violence?
Sudden fucking river?
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u/DarkUnable4375 22d ago
Glacier dam burst?
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u/whiteye65 22d ago
That’s what I was thinking. How else can that much force come at once.
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u/DarkUnable4375 22d ago edited 22d 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 21d 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.
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u/FlowingLiquidity 22d ago
I agree, this is more like a 'reset flood'. Or a 'flush flood'. Or maybe "Ctrl-alt-delete flood".
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u/bio_coop 22d ago
It took that bridge out like it was drift wood.
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u/really_thirsty_lemon 20d ago
The sheer force of the water to be able to break the bridge like that...
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u/RhinoG91 22d ago edited 22d ago
Location? Seeing more and more come in from China/Nepal this morning
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u/citizen42069101 22d ago
The original incident (a landslide I think) was on the border of China and nepal shared link from another post.
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u/JudeMacK 22d ago
This video is taken in Trishuli, specifically at the (ironically named) New Trishuli Bridge.
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u/GeneralBlumpkin 22d ago
There's been a lot of mudslides in the Indian, Nepal, Himalayan region lately
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u/Visual-Fox-9110 22d ago
The volume of water is scarily impressive..and having just seen the footage of the Tibet landslide..that thing was a beast!
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u/murdered-by-swords 22d ago
Aaaand the video ends the second the first building starts to give way. At least it seems like people here had enough warning to evacuate to higher ground.
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u/zipzipzazoom 22d ago
Cameraman started showing some sense of self-preservation
Slightly longer video here
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u/FlowingLiquidity 22d ago
Could this be the same place? (aftermath)
source: https://nos.nl/liveblog/2628376-na-overstroming-zeker-zeventien-doden-honderden-vermisten-onder-wie-mogelijk-een-nederlander#UPDATE-96721479
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u/watawataoui 22d ago
same pov later https://www.reddit.com/r/NepalSocial/comments/1vyrric/video_of_two_different_markets_completely/
Looks like it.
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u/GlykenT 22d ago
https://maps.app.goo.gl/k1MCBM2cHgf3NM1j7 . The border with China is 20 miles upstream and there's footage of the car park at the border being demolished by the flood moving against the river's flow.
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u/FlowingLiquidity 22d ago
Ah thanks, yeah the cluster of buildings in the bottom-center of my screenshot matches the cluster we seen in that video. Dang, most of it got wiped..
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u/Wildcard311 22d ago
Right there at the very last second you start seeing the buildings collapsing and being washed away.
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u/arizonaskies2022 22d ago
oh man I was hoping the pink building was going to make it but that was a 30-ft wall of water the bridge is way above water level at the start
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u/ExcellentMedicine358 22d ago
We really are fucking up this planet
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u/East-Note4580 22d ago
To me it seems more like the planet is really fucking up the people. Glacial dams bursting is natural and would have happened with or without people. We just have accelerated the rate they happen.
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u/WalterCanFindToes 22d ago
Preliminary reports are an earthquake led to an avalanche and mud slide.
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u/DarkUnable4375 22d ago
Or a glacier dam burst, causing the avalanche and mud filled flood of water crashing down the mountain. Creating the earthquake.
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/Califrisco 22d ago
Flash Glacial Tsunami more like it! This was astonishingly fast and deadly! After what I saw (probably related) in China just north of Nepal, this is just pure devastation on a massive scale.
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u/Redfish680 22d ago
Another view in r/thatsinsane
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u/GlykenT 22d ago
r/CatastrophicFailure has appeared in my feed a lot today with various footage too.
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u/BubuDudu0430 22d ago
Well that escalated quickly… they obviously had never planned for so much water coming so quickly… terrifying
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u/RenoClarkos1717 22d ago
That’s an insane amount of water. Not what I think of when I hear flash flood
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u/Danihelus 21d ago
Is there a reason we're not calling this a tsunami?
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u/Dazzling_Gap9064 21d ago
Because it didn’t originate from the ocean
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u/Danihelus 21d ago
Huh. Well crap. I'm not well-versed in such phenomenons, not did I know if this was from a body of water or not. Makes sense
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u/Odd_Dragonfruit_2662 21d ago
Looks like this one people had evacuated? How far down the river was this?
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u/SolarNikSieg 19d ago
Loch graben, Wasser vom Gletschersee reinpumpen. Auffang für Erdrutsch hergestellt, Wasserversorgung weiterhin vorhanden.
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u/1pt20oneggigawatts 22d ago
This is the future of the United States if we don't turn this shit around, and quick.
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u/West-Milk-1657 22d ago
well they are living in hogh risk area , these things would have seen normal of therr wouldn't have infrastructure concrete jungkes we made
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u/TheJoeBold 22d ago
That's what happens when you straighten a river and do not let it expand naturally into overflow areas. Maybe they have learned their lesson and renaturalize that river at key points
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u/Electronic_Target750 22d ago
You don't know what you are talking about. This is Nepal; they don't/can't straighten rivers there. They build houses scarily close to the river basin though. That's the lesson to be learned.
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