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Landsat 9 pass captured the effects of yesterday's catastrophic glacier collapse
- yread 20d agoMaybe better link: https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1vzanzz/new_satellite_image_shows_a_massive_glacier/ https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1vzanzz/new_sate...
- ckemere 20d agoPlease post - I’d like to upvote a twitter alternative
- beej71 20d agoMore information on the collapse itself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Nepal_floods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Nepal_floods
- trompetenaccoun 20d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2026_Nepal_floods#Requested_move_26_August_2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2026_Nepal_floods#Request... Just another day on Wikipedia.
- sph 20d agoJesus those videos are upsetting. Poor people.
- marcyb5st 20d agoNever 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 20d agoAnother 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 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
- comrade1234 20d agoI 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 20d agoThe 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 20d agoChina really needs to do something in that part of the world, reduce their carbon footprint, it’s killing the ice.
- JohnnyLarue 20d agoThey very much are. More, perhaps, than any other country.
- kevinthedigger 20d agoYes, in contributing to global climate change.
- marcyb5st 20d agoDo 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 20d agoDoes the earth use per capita? Didn’t think so
- ryukoposting 20d agoCool, 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.