DEVIGHAT, Nepal (AP) — Rescue teams searched on Thursday for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacier collapse.

The disaster left at least 168 people dead and more than 1,300 missing, including foreigners and pilgrims, and displaced hundreds of people across the Himalayan region.

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[–] 2 points 2 months ago

That would be 8,000,000 cubic meters, mostly ice I think. Seems to be happening a lot lately.

This one from alaska last year was 64M cubic meters of rock (related to melting glaciers I guess?):

The sheer power of that amount of rock plunging into the fjord in under a minute created a gigantic wave almost 500 metres tall.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1m253033m4o

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