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

yread | 16 hours ago

Maybe better link:

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

ckemere | 14 hours ago

Please post - I’d like to upvote a twitter alternative

beej71 | 16 hours ago

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

trompetenaccoun | 16 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2026_Nepal_floods#Request...

Just another day on Wikipedia.

sph | 15 hours ago

Jesus those videos are upsetting. Poor people.

sailfast | 15 hours ago

There’s just no preparing for that kind of power being unleashed. Holy hell. :/

beej71 | 13 hours ago

"Floodwaters reached settlements as high as 270 feet (80 m) above the river level." :( :( :( No way to run 80 m up-slope in seconds.

marcyb5st | 16 hours ago

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.

stefanoco | 15 hours ago

Another similar tragedy (although with totally different reasons) was the Vajont Dam mega tsunami in 1963 in north Italy (est. up to 2500 deaths)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam

comrade1234 | 15 hours ago

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 | 14 hours ago

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 | 14 hours ago

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

JohnnyLarue | 14 hours ago

They very much are. More, perhaps, than any other country.

kevinthedigger | 12 hours ago

Yes, in contributing to global climate change.

marcyb5st | 10 hours ago

Do the per Capita calculation. Why can US and Canadian folks emit 4x as much as the average Chinese citizen? Do you believe you have the right to do so only because you are born in the West?

I believe that if it wasn't producing shit for US its emissions would be vastly lower.

kevinthedigger | 3 hours ago

Does the earth use per capita? Didn’t think so

ryukoposting | 14 hours ago

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.