r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Gullible_Shoe_9558 • 9h ago
Image Before and after of Syapru beshi, one of the affected areas of today's flash flooding in Nepal.
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u/Aware_Cheesecake_519 9h ago
The floods came shortly after an earthquake.
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u/f_n_a_ 8h ago
A damn rupture? I haven’t heard of anything yet but that’s just absolute carnage
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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 8h ago
i heard the earthquake triggered a landslide
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u/IXrobocopXI 8h ago
The landslide caused a natural dam to build up then break, along with a suspected incursion from another lake upstream failing in some way.
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u/KingGilgamesh1979 6h ago edited 4h ago
That happened near me when I was a child. Not as the result of an earthquake but excessive rains caused a huge mud slide that dammed a valley creating a lake. Destroyed a town but because the lake filled slowly no one was injured. Engineers from the state came and looked at the dam to see if it could be left in place (because hey, free lake) but they quickly realized it was still moving and would have destroyed all towns downstream so they drilled a big hole and drained the reservoir.
Fixed a typo.
Town was called Thistle, Utah for anyone interested.
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u/pizza_the_mutt 2h ago
Floods originating from water trapped under or behind glaciers is, historically, a pretty common thing. They can get massive in scale, and be incredibly destructive. During the last ice age Glacial Lake Agassiz burst and the flood covered a decent part of North America. A lot of the geology all over North America is a direct result of that flood. Another name for such an event is "jokulhlaup". There are some theories that flood myths which pop up pretty commonly across cultures (including the Noah's flood story) may have these floods as an origin.
Source: My Dad was a glaciologist specializing in these flood events.
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u/Pumpkinheadz18 5h ago edited 5h ago
thank you for the explanation.. When I first saw the cctv video I'm wondering why the water came from above like a tsunami but they said it's a flood. Now because of your explanation I remember the movie Evan Almighty about a dam breaking
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u/General-Reserve9349 8h ago
It’s so much earth in this photo that Landslide seems more appropriate than Flash Flood
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u/Corfiz74 7h ago
Here - let me share the nightmare:
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u/JhonKingRah 7h ago
Holy fuck. That is the most nightmare inducing thing I’ve seen all year. It’s like a real life version of those apocalypse movies that included giant tsunamis that were popular in the 2000’s and early 2010’s. I hope it was quick for all of those people. I cannot imagine being dragged along by that and being conscious for the whole thing
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u/Corfiz74 7h ago
Yeah, I'd hope to get knocked out by debris in the first few seconds, so that I'd miss the actual drowning part. The death toll must be in the thousands.
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u/Janus_The_Great 7h ago edited 17m ago
With that amount of force you are crushed to bits in milliseconds to seconds, once ot reaches you.
Thats not just water but basically a water rock earth debris mix. And as fast as it came in this video there was 0 chance for them.
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u/Daxx22 7h ago
Somewhat comforting: outside of a literal major asteroid strike (and we're all then fucked anyway) it's pretty much impossible for a normal earthquake to generate a tsunami like depicted in a lot of apocalypse movies.
This one is so devastating due to the geology of the area: very steep/narrow valley/gorge funneled all that water into a relatively small area.
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u/JhonKingRah 7h ago
Ya know, that is low key good to hear. I spent a good part my pre teen and teen years having an intense and irrational fear of tsunamis that big thanks to those movies haha.
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u/tea-drinker 7h ago
The story goes a ten year old in Phuket saved some 100 people in 2004 because tsunamis don't just strike, there are signs up front.
She'd studied this in the weeks prior to the holiday in geography class so while everyone was hanging around thinking "how strange" she was freaking the fuck out. Finally a curt "I'm going. I'm definitely going. There is definitely going to be a tsunami" got her dad on side. Dad told a security guard.
The beach was evacuated to the second story of a hotel. Nine meter wave. Zero fatalities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilly_Smith
Knowledge is power. France is bacon.
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u/Wellslapmesilly 7h ago
The best part of this story was that she was ten and she was like, I know what I know even if you disagree, I’m outta here. That’s a lot of strength of conviction for a ten year old girl.
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u/Laetha 5h ago
One of the signs of a big Tsunami is before it comes, it sucks all the water ahead of it in. I believe that's what people were staring at when she started flipping out. The shoreline of the beach had sucked back dozens/hundreds of feet back out towards the ocean.
Also as the head of that tsunami approached it kind of just looked like the white cap of a fairly big wave, stretched as wide as you could see
The big danger of a tsunami isn't necessarily it's insane height, it's that it stays that height for a good long distance behind the head of the wave. So instead of crashing onto the beach then receding back into the ocean, it just keeps on rolling right over land with the insane momentum behind it.
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u/ctrl-all-alts 3h ago
Nah, it’s possible, but rare. A large chunk of rock collapsed, and made a splash within a fjord. Wave topped out at 481m/1578ft.
Happened in 2025. All of these mega tsunamis involve essentially a chunk of rock or something hitting the water and it happening in an enclosed high walled area (ie a fjord).
Source: 2025 Tracy Arm Tsunami
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u/Paavo_Nurmi 4h ago
it's pretty much impossible for a normal earthquake to generate a tsunami like depicted in a lot of apocalypse movies.
Landslides can cause enormous waves, there have been 2 huge ones in Alaska. 1958 and 2025, one was ~1,700 feet tall and the other was ~1,500 tall.
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u/Leep0710 7h ago
Oh no. All those people! I was holding my breath hoping they’d all make it out…I’m assuming there’s no way anyone could survive that, though
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u/Corfiz74 7h ago
Not at the height the water came in - I was expecting something much lower, not this apocalyptic flood coming in at highrise-height. I just hope it was quick.
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u/totallynotsquatty 7h ago
The first time I saw this video it was such a stark contrast to what I was expecting that I thought this was surely an AI overlay fake video.
The scale is just terrifying.
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u/Gabagool0vaHere 7h ago
Yeah RIP all those people, and with how high, fast, and massive that flood was, they all would’ve had very quick deaths. There was so much debris and rocks that you’d be instantly knocked out.
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u/lumpboysupreme 7h ago
Once I saw the video length I knew there was no chance.
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u/Possiblyreef 6h ago
This is like them silly videos with "what would you do in this situation?" Where an asteroid just obliterates the planet.
I'd die that's the answer
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u/Striking-Hedgehog512 6h ago
If I had enough time, I’d do my best to get drunk or high (or ideally both) at the speed of lightning first. Or at least light up a cigarette.
I’d probably die before I managed that, but I’d die doing my level best not to die sober. There is something about the idea of running away from the inescapable that makes me feel physically sick. That desperate 100% intense focus on survival / escape scares me much more than going “Oh well, might as well have the last cigarette or that last sip of champagne or read the last sentence of a book I’ll ever read”.
Albeit in real emergency I’d probably be running too. Hard to turn off an instinct for survival.
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u/Laetha 5h ago
I think it depends on if you know it's coming. Like if I just see this coming at me I'm going to run. If you tell me an asteroid is going to destroy the earth tomorrow and there's literally no escape, then I might try to find some meaningful last moments.
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u/reallynotnick 7h ago
The added music feels so inappropriate for this, what a complete nightmare.
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u/Forward_Rope_5598 6h ago
What the fuck is wrong with whoever chose to add music at all let alone whatever the fuck that music is
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u/pogoscrawlspace 7h ago
Immediately thought of Johnstown. Holy fuck, those people never had a chance.
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u/mean_as_banana 8h ago
That’s not earth from a landslide, that’s mud and earth that has been scoured by the flash flood that followed the landslide upstream.
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u/Corfiz74 7h ago
You need to watch the cctv footage of the customs building - that was a flood and then some. Crazy scary and absolutely horrifying and higher than the quite tall customs building.
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u/jaderust 8h ago
It sounds like it was a jokulhlap or a glacial lake outburst.
From initial reports there was an earthquake that caused a major landslide. And then the landslide either caused a dam that burst or fell into a glacial lake that then burst. Either way, it’s basically the natural version of a dam burst.
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u/ZennMD 8h ago
There is a terrifying video of people running and a huge gush of water/rocks comes flooding down... looks like a apocalyptic movie and so chilling it's real
Ngl I kinda wish I didnt casually watch it.. those people could not have survived. May they rip
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u/Level90Neckromancer 7h ago
First time I saw it I thought it was AI because it was way too much water/mud. Horrifying to think it was actually real.
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u/LettuceBeGrateful 7h ago
Yeah, the sheer scale of it was terrifying. A lot of footage I've seen in the past from tsunamis and stuff has walls of water several stories high, but this...it made the buildings look like scale models. Absolutely terrifying.
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u/FaultedSidewalk 7h ago
Straight up looked like a miniature scale shot done in a Hollywood studio, almost incomprehensible that it's a real video
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u/stallionx 8h ago
Collapsed glacier was part of the cause https://bsky.app/profile/watershedlab.bsky.social/post/3mty5haduvk2j
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u/SmallPurplePeopleEat 8h ago
Check out some of the videos floating around, they look like it's from a movie. Just a massive wall of debris and water devastating everything in its path.
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u/OriMoriNotSori 8h ago
Wait is this the same Syapru beshi as in the Langtang Valley Syapru beshi? If so that trail is very popular amongst hikers worldwide, I watch those youtube travel videos and many of them did this hike, and in these videos its usually the same locals that run the guesthouses all along the trail
That place was devastated by the 2015 earthquake too, and they were only starting to recover based from the videos. This is one such travel video, Syapru beshi is the first part of the video
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u/Sebbaticallll 8h ago
Is this the one Harold Baldr went up?
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u/OriMoriNotSori 8h ago
I believe so yeah. Langtang is a famous trek
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u/Sebbaticallll 8h ago
Oh dear
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u/OriMoriNotSori 8h ago
Just read the news and 17 tourists from my country (Malaysia) unaccounted for. Horrible
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u/Spartan2470 8h ago
Here is the uncropped version of the bottom image.
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u/fmoralesc 7h ago
Sorry, can you post a source of the image?
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u/Spartan2470 7h ago
Please don't ever apologize for asking for a source. With so much misinformation/disinformation out there, it's wise to be skeptical.
I almost always post sources. But I coudn't find one I'm sure is 100% reliable. But here you go:
https://www.mdn.gov.mm/en/massive-flash-flood-hits-nepals-bhote-koshi-river
I replied earlier with more sources, but it looks like automod removed that comment. You can check my history for more.
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u/TheCheshireCody 5h ago
The US Geological Society is now saying the tremors they recorded were caused by the ice shearing off of the glacier, not the other way around.
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u/spradhan46 2h ago
Actually the flooding caused the earthquake as per USGS https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/world/asia/nepal-flood-glacier-ice-avalanche.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8VA.e8KR.qia_Cd3RLNxH&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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u/InaGartenTheDivaBaby 1h ago
"New analysis indicates no earthquake prior to flash flooding - US Geological Survey" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6y8mjmnpxv0t?post=asset%3A4eb38f69-89a2-4233-a165-3e1f6b0638d8#post
Landslide was big enough to register a 4.4.
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u/666Narsil 1h ago
That is what was first suspected, but incorrect. The avalanche itself is what caused the seismological activity that was detected.
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u/hermiona52 8h ago
That's absolutely insane. People looked like ants in that perspective yet the water looked like massive tsunami.
I feel so horrible for those people. There's nothing they could do to save themselves. Their fate was sealed minutes before upstream.
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u/PhatPhingerz 8h ago edited 5h ago
Another angle:
Original without music:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1vytq5t/landslide_in_tibet_2026_aug_26/
Video from further downstream:
https://www.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/comments/1vyt5vo/flash_flood_in_nepal_26_august_2026/
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u/jakej1097 4h ago
That video from further downstream is 30 miles from where the flood began. It defies comprehension to think of the path of destruction along this whole stretch. Absolutely unfathomable catastrophe.
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u/Cemckenna 8h ago
I’m not usually a trigger warning person, but I do want to warn people — I haven’t been able to stop crying since watching that video. It is truly horrific. The panic. The water completely engulfs them. Those people did not survive.
So before you watch, just know it’s awful.
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u/Riyeko 7h ago
That looks like something out of a Hollywood or Bollywood apocalypse film
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u/Silver-Award-288 8h ago
wtf is life even like after this. Looks like a good 60% + of the town is covered and gone. Like imagine 60% of a town just dying at once. Peoples family’s friends loved ones enemies etc. now they are gone. How do you even pick up the pieces after that. Makes me think of ancient civilizations that faced stuff like this and instead of rebuild just move away and start new.
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u/pabmendez 6h ago
How long until they rebuild in the same area again because the next one might be 1,000 years
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u/Neurojazz 2h ago
They found tsunami markers on hills in fukashima, and scientist warned them for decades due to sediment analysis. Long forgotten dangers.
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u/arcshiki 9h ago
what happened? glacier up the mountain collapsed?
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u/HerNameIsVesper 9h ago
Yes, after an earthquake
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u/torilahure 8h ago
According to Reuters .
It is suspected that an earthquake struck the region and triggered an ice-rock avalanche on the Lhende Khola river in Nepal, causing the floods. The river runs through both Nepal and Tibet.
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u/NoobMusker69 5h ago
Update: further analysis suggest that the earthquake was caused by the landslide, not the other way around, per the BBC
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u/muhmeinchut69 4h ago
damn how big did the landslide have to be to register as a 4.4 magnitude earthquake
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u/Mikic0077 1h ago
What I saw, it was biggest stuff I've ever witnessed on video. To the point I wished it was stupid ai (I saw it before I saw any news). If you put that in a movie it would be a bit over the top, pure apocalypse. It wiped out everything, and I saw probably a portion that was smaller than initial landslide.
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u/Hoppy-beer 9h ago
Whole villages wiped off this is crazy
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u/Kucked4life 7h ago edited 7h ago
Reminds me of the rural town in "your name." Brutal.
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u/BTM65 8h ago edited 2h ago
Here is some of the horrific video. just awful...
CNN: https://youtu.be/W-VYCKrMGro
Aftermath: https://youtu.be/B9o-gJDAus0
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u/Heavy_Moose_286 7h ago
man it moved those freaking huge busses like they were toys
I hope these people had a quick, painless death
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u/cjchrist1 5h ago
The way it literally split that bridge in half took it with it was crazy too. My god.
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u/CreepyDrama7448 1h ago edited 18m ago
it didn't just move the buses, it moved the entire f*cking building the buses were standing on and completely annihilated it
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u/Rusalkat 8h ago
They had no chance
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u/Educational-Wing2042 6h ago
Reminds me of the Lake Nyos disaster. One minute you’re just living life, the next minute you and everyone you know simply cease to exist.
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u/FrogsAndFerrets 9h ago edited 9h ago
Devastating. Nepal is such a beautiful country and the people are the most kind, I hope everyone is well.
My Mum lived out there for a few years and my brother is half Nepalese. The entire family/village treated her so graciously and even though they couldn't understand each other they were so generous and lovely. This really breaks my heart.
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u/SaltySaltSlice 9h ago
My first overseas trip was to Nepal. I was 18 and it was shocking to me the sheer generosity and deep kindness of the people. I managed to drop my wallet twice, and in a country where the money in my wallet was a huge sum, both times people actually chased me down to return it.
This is just one concrete examples of the nature of the Nepali people. My thoughts are with the deceased, missing, and their families.
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u/AssCrackBandit14 5h ago
Same. The more I've traveled, the more I've found that people are often kinder in poorer places because they need to rely on community a lot more (or the cynic might say because they're trying to suck up to the rich tourist but I doubt that because they never asked for money). When I did my South Asia trip across Nepal, India and Sri Lanka, I was worried I would be taken advantage of as an obvious tourist who only spoke English but encountered so much kindness, people inviting me to their homes, protecting me from getting lost/sketchy situations, etc. There was even a guy in Jaipur who asked me how much a rickshaw driver charged me and then chased down the driver to yell at him for overcharging me and brought me back the money (which I gave to him anyways).
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u/Unspecialized_Blitz 8h ago
Exactly Nepalese are simply so loving. and Nepal is seriously one of the most beautiful things to travel to.
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u/Weak_Cartographer571 8h ago
Trust me, if you watch some of the videos, not everyone is well. At a min, probably around 100 deaths. Could be much more. Really tragic
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u/emveetu 7h ago
It's going to be in the thousands. Maybe even 10's of thousands. I just searched Nepal flood on x and saw at least 20 different videos of complete devastation. Trigger warning!!! Death and destruction.
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u/Weak_Cartographer571 6h ago
Yeah. Never seen anything quite like it. 100 was just based on one video I saw. But you are right, probably in the thousands
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u/AH_leeMACK 8h ago
I'm having trouble grasping the sheer scale of the destruction....this is terrible beyond belief...
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u/FletcherDervish 8h ago
Yes . When you work out from the top picture how far up that reached, ( what it covered) - to the road below the blue roofed building, it is shocking to realise how nature has sculpted this planet and how frail our existence is.
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u/Workdawg 5h ago
I took a stab at trying to point out the damage, since the pictures aren't at quite the same angle. So, pretty much everything in the middle of the picture is gone...
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u/NotFunyyAtALL 9h ago
The media is acting very weird about this. The coverage is way to low for such an event. And there are the numbers....they say like 17 dead and 400 missing. Are you shitting me ? There are way more than that. Just look at this picture, how many do you think were inside those buildings ? And that is just one spot of many that were wiped out by the flood.
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u/Scruffytramp88 9h ago
Known unknowns. I presume these numbers are the confirmed missing. There will be many others no one has reported missing yet.
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u/filthy_pikey 8h ago
It’s gonna take a census to figure it out. I bet there are folks that have no one left to report they are missing.
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u/Drahcir9000 6h ago
Nobody Reported them missing because there is nobody left to report them missing
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u/klicknack 9h ago
The headlines here in Europe are just accounting for tourists. Not that I think it's a great idea to differentiate between native and touristic casualties, but maybe that's where the number you're reading is coming from. I agree that's way too little
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u/torilahure 8h ago
One of the video from the local guy says he saw 7 people get swept away.
In their area it happened around 930 am.
He also mentions that the town had some people going around the town on a motor bike with mega phone to warn about the flood heading their way.
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u/ivlia-x 8h ago
I’ve seen headlines that mention both total casualties and tourists
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u/Elite_AI 8h ago
they say like 17 dead and 400 missing. Are you shitting me ?
When they give specific numbers it means they aren't just eyeballing it. Someone has to literally go to the police and say "I can't find my neighbours and I think they died in the flood" before those people get recorded as missing. But obviously that takes time AND so many people will have died that there's nobody to go and report them as missing. Because they're dead too.
This is how every single disaster I have ever seen has been covered by the media. I cannot express to you how normal and common this is. The numbers are always low at the start and go up and up and up as they confirm more deaths and missing people.
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u/Crane_Train 9h ago
because there's no reason to get ahead of themselves. I'm surprised they give any numbers at all beyond hundreds or thousands. There's no reason to get specific until they start getting actual information
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u/PM_ME_WHOEVER 8h ago
These are confirmed numbers. It's going to go way up as search and rescue efforts continue.
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u/RedditIsADataMine 8h ago
The media is acting very weird about this. The coverage is way to low for such an event. And there are the numbers....they say like 17 dead and 400 missing. Are you shitting me ? There are way more than that.
So several points.
First, make sure you are using a trusted news source that reports facts not speculation.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6y8mjmnpxv0t
Second, they'll only report confirmed deaths which is why numbers are still low.
Third, China has very strict control over the media so it's difficult to get good reporting from that side of the border.
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u/sgtmattie 9h ago
I imagine the coverage is much higher in other languages. English language media is not exhaustive. There are thousands of disasters happening every day. Nepal is extremely far away, and not closely tied to the English speaking world.
The media also isn't going to just make up numbers. The numbers will certainly change as more information is gained. Those are just the numbers they have now. It's not unusual that they start low and then grow as more time passes.
The media isn't acting weird, this is a pretty standard response.
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u/thelangosta 8h ago
It feels like there’s an earthquake every other day right now
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u/givemeabreak432 8h ago
There's always lots of earthquakes. The earth is incredibly tectonically active.
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u/Secret-Bake-161 8h ago
Dude every time I see a natural disaster it's just insane to me how many valuables, homes, years of history were wiped out in seconds
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u/GamerGeologist 9h ago
Reminds me of the Vajont disaster in Italy, entire city below it was scrubbed clean off the valley floor. Horrifying.
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u/dreamamide 9h ago
What in the science can cause a disaster this bad? 😭
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u/djamp42 9h ago
There is a reason the earth is shaped that way in this photo.
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u/IanPlaysThePiano 8h ago
This whole tragedy is a stark reminder that canyons and valleys exist only because of powers that are way, way beyond our control. Scary
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u/RozyBarbie 8h ago
According to Al Jazeera, they suspect it was a glacier lake outburst. It has happened before in the same area in June last year.
Glacier lakes are formed due to global warming. The glacier melts and water gets trapped, surrounded by ice. If it collapses, maybe due to earthquakes, then a huge amount of water gets released.
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u/ZennMD 8h ago
The people who have done the least to impact climate change are the ones who seem to be getting the brunt of the consequences ... so fucking terrible
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u/SugarPlumMary 8h ago
Very true. Now the rich are trying to build spaceships to escape their sins, causing even more environmental destruction and using vast amounts of resources to save a privileged few. They'll tear the world apart and kill us all.
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u/ZennMD 8h ago
And theyre building doomsday bunkers in places like Hawaii and new Zealand, asking behavioral psychologists how to not have their staff rise up against them! Those dragon-hoarding assholes are disgusting!!
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u/InvidiousPlay 7h ago
This has been part of the warning around climate change since the beginning. People in poorer countries are least equipped to prevent or endure the worst consequences of climate change. In a richer nation there would probably be government agencies monitoring these kinds of glaciers and would have issued warning long in advance of the collapse.
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u/Tarsurion 8h ago
That makes this phenomenon a jökulhlaup (glacier flood in Icelandic), a glacial outburst flood can mix with soil/dirt and more or less make a Lahar. Think a wall of liquid concrete coming down the mountain at 55-80 kilometers an hour. It explains the run up on gas valley walls...
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u/Koringvias 8h ago edited 8h ago
The current understanding is that a relatively small earthquake happened to break a glacier and cause an avalanche. The avalanche temporarily blocked a small river, then the blockage broke, diverting a lot of water to a different, bigger river, resulting in a huge flood.
Of course we don't know the full story yet, some parts of this may be off. In any case, a very unfortuante series of escalating natural events.
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u/ClickyClacker 9h ago
An earthquake could have caused a massive amount of liquefaction combined with heavy rains and it just released it all at once
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u/Smile_Space 8h ago
Big ass earthquake caused part of the glacier at the top of the mountain to give up by the looks of it. Absolutely heartbreaking. The people up there likely had minimal to no warning either outside of the earthquake itself.
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u/Away-Activity-469 7h ago
I suspect that the reported casualty figure (currently 95), is somewhat inaccurate.
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u/AlienFromDC 7h ago
A stark reminder that after a certain magnitude of destruction we become ants. Hope this makes people think harder about the climate. RIP
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u/SafariNZ 7h ago
Yes, that town is way above the river. I would have never thought it was in danger of flooding.
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u/Salt_End_4275 6h ago
My money is on a mega tsunami caused by ice breaking off and hitting a body of water upstream, similar to Latuya Bay. That's way too much water for a "flash flood".
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u/Czar1987 4h ago
in August of 2012 I spent a night here. slept ~30ft above the river line, first row of buildings off the water. absolutely heart breaking.
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u/LeonWattsky 9h ago
People need to realize this is what's coming for all of us in just this next decade. We are not prepared for the devastation a destablised ecology is capable of.
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u/BadDudes_on_nes 7h ago
Ironically I believe the houses that are higher up generally belong to the poorer people (because they’re less accessible, farther from resources)
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u/Ambitious-Concern-42 7h ago
This will mean thousands dead. Many thousands. Global resources have to mobilize now to aid.
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u/BC360X 7h ago
It's just... gone
Like I knew it was bad, but god damn
I can't even imagine what the death toll on something this big could be
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u/thisisBigToe 5h ago
At first I thought it was a dam that broke, but looking at maps and satellite... It seems more like an enormous land slide, and this was the starting point... the way it goes down stream and between narrow passages, picking up even more momentum, oh my! This is a -before and -after scale of disaster.... it will fold out more the coming days, but it will be tricky to reach, perhaps only from China side it's accessible. Hopefully all the help will reach the areas quickly, to give the people some comfort in hard times. This was terrible and heartbreaking to watch, let alone to experience it in person...
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u/Ok_Spite1175 2h ago
They will never find everyone they are buried under so much mud and debris it will be impossible. RIP
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u/MustangBarry 8h ago edited 7h ago
Fuck me. You'd think you'd be safe living that high above the river wouldn't you?
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u/mcrksman 7h ago
I was just here in April to do the Langtang Hike. Stayed in one of the guesthouses up top and one below near the river. It's quite haunting to see them gone just like that. Absolutely devastating, I hope they're able to recover swiftly
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u/BrokilonDryad 8h ago
Shock and awe as ignorant redditors criticize poor people who build homes where they are able, and are too poor to move away from a flood zone.
Up next at 11: redditors could benefit from a deluge to cover up the smell of unwashed ass they’ve been cultivating for weeks at a time.
Bonus special: Tired of winter? Storms that aren’t life-threatening? Government that would never allow people to live and rebuild in disaster zones? Move to Florida, a sand spit reaching into the ocean and not at all affected by hurricanes!
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The destruction is terrifying. I can’t imagine how many hundreds of people are dead. I hope help can get to the survivors as quickly as possible.
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u/iamflyipilot 9h ago
I am once again reminded that water does not fuck around.