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More than 1,300 are missing in Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic floods caused by glacier collapse (apnews.com)
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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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[–] 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Terrifying video and the lives lost is saddening.

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    • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    That's devastating, the kind of power behind that and with how fast it must have moved I doubt there was much of a chance for those in the way to escape. Not much you can do to stop a massive glacier like that from collapsing in this warming world. The people affected by this have my deepest sympathies.

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    • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    If I lived anywhere downstream of a glacier, I would be getting quite nervous. Those videos are harrowing. The one at the border crossing looks like a scene from a Hollywood disaster movie.

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    [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Melting glaciers have become more common because of human-caused climate change.

    Holy crap! I'm not used to the media acknowledging anthropogenic climate change! Thank you, Associated Press!

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    [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    There's gotta be way more missing than that. Those videos are completely insane.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    There are. It's the CCP, well they were taken over by the CCP, it's like Hong Kong.... it's CCP controlled but called Hong Kong. Anyways, you need to probably 5x the missing toll from whatever is publicly reported. China is still dying in the hill that they had 60k covid deaths when it's closer to 1-1.5 million.

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    Donate to the Nepal Red Cross

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    [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    has it been proven to be a glacier collapse? I listened to a Nepalese Govt radio interview in which they stated it was an earthquake

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/what-caused-the-catastrophic-flash-flood-in-nepal-and-tibet-and-how-does-a-glacier-collapse

    However, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said that while the event was initially reported to be caused by a magnitude 4.4 earthquake, further analysis showed the “seismic event was a glacial collapse and debris flow that caused subsequent catastrophic impacts downstream” and “no earthquake had occurred”.

    The USGS noted the glacial collapse had registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event on the Richter scale, occurring near the border between Nepal and China at 8.37am local time on Wednesday.

    According to Assoc Prof Daniel Shugar, a geomorphologist at the University of Calgary in Canada, initial satellite analysis showed a 0.2 sq km chunk of ice “collapsed about 1.2km vertically”.

    “What I can see in … satellite imagery from Planet Labs, the lower part of a glacier broke off at about 5,200 metres and crashed onto the valley floor about 1,200 metres below,” he wrote on Bluesky.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    So much carnage from something so relatively small, but doing the math, a 0.2 cubic chunk would weigh a nice massive 200 million metric tons.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Kind of weird how many years we've been hearing Gore's name used as some kind of punchline, usually from some of the stupidest and worst people, but also from the Tone Police types.

    And of course the moronic felon in chief has been saying it's a "Chinese hoax".

    But I guess the denialists will be able to write this off as just a random event, not tied to climate change or anything.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I.. I hope they didn't have to suffer for long.. I hope thier body gave up and passed out on impact... Because this is a terrible way to go..

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