Tsunami of Dirt: What Caused Nepal’s Deadly Glacial Flood?
More than 270 people are dead and hundreds are missing as investigators examine whether a glacier collapse and landslide triggered the flood, officials said.
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The videos of the disaster have already traveled the entire world: a giant mass of water and mud swept through with all its passage near the border between Nepal and China, killing more than 300 people, while hundreds are still missing.Everything points to these floods being caused by a landslide caused by the collapse of a glacier, known by scientists as RGI2000-v7.0-G-15-05732.And as the authorities continue to help the victims of this disaste…
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Prakash Mathema/GettyMore than 150 people are dead and hundreds more missing after an enormous wave of water, ice, mud and rock cascaded more than 170 kilometres down the Bhote Koshi River valley in Nepal. The valley is the main link between Kathmandu in Nepal and Lhasa in Tibet. At least 34 Australians are missing. There was little warning. Footage of the debris-laden flash flood is shocking. It is, unfortunately, not surprising. As an expert i…
Tsunami of dirt: What caused Nepal's deadly glacial flood?
More than 150 people are dead and hundreds more are missing after an enormous wave of water, ice, mud and rock cascaded more than 170 kilometers (106 miles) down the Bhote Koshi River valley in Nepal. The valley is the main link between Kathmandu in Nepal and Lhasa in Tibet. At least 34 Australians are missing. There was little warning.
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