Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday's catastrophic glacier collapse

yread

Maybe better link: https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1vzanzz/new_sate...

beej71

More information on the collapse itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Nepal_floods

marcyb5st

Never seen anything of the sort apart from the Tsunamis in Japan and Indian ocean. This event is the "big brother" of what happened in Italy in 2022 with the Marmolada glacier collapse which was tiny compared to this. Additionally, the orography in Tibet/Nepal is much more dramatic (higher elevations, steeper slopes, narrower valleys). I am really astonished by the videos circulating online.

comrade1234

I wonder how long they had from the collapse to it reaching villages. Here in Switzerland glaciers and thawing mountains are monitored pretty closely with sensors. Villages are evacuated when it starts to get dangerous.

lightedman

The sheer amount of land mass that moved triggered seismometers all over the place. One seismometer registered a 5.2M. To put this in perspective, on the surface of the earth, quake energy does not travel very well. For this to make a seismometer register that high would require an absolutely terrifying massive amount of land to be moving on the surface. Current estimates are the slide itself was roughly half a mile wide. That's absolutely massive.

kevinthedigger

China really needs to do something in that part of the world, reduce their carbon footprint, it’s killing the ice.

ryukoposting

Cool, a link where, if I try to watch the video, it instead opens the Play Store to nag me about an app. Twitter links should be banned from HN.