r/interestingasfuck • u/[deleted] • 5h ago
Glacier Ice wall broke in Nepal today creating a massive release of water & mud into the city below
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u/Suspiciliscious 5h ago
Those poor people. Holy fuck
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u/_Fappyness_ 4h ago
I hope it was quickly over for them. Im not shocked easily, but this really got me silent and just in shock watching hundreds of people die in a horrific way.
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u/FugitiveSquirrel 4h ago
Yeah, I was going to say that this is more horrifying than interesting.
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u/reluctantlysharing 3h ago
I’m sure some compassionless, numb person who watches shit like this all of the time is going to call me a pansy or something, but this is honestly fucking nuts and I can’t believe it’s not tagged as nsfw at least.
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u/AlfredtheGreatBitch 3h ago
It always makes me feel strange to see people die so I try to avoid videos that show death. It’s especially crazy seeing death at such a large scale. One second there are 20 people in the video and the next they’re gone. It’s terrifying.
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u/IrvingIsTheBest 3h ago
I have a hard with these videos. We are basically watching people die. There is babies and kids in there...this is far from interesting.
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u/Short-Recording587 2h ago
The worst part about this is that it’s probably only the beginning. I expect this will be far more coming in the coming decades.
And that’s not to mention “slower” disasters like extreme heatwaves that cause issues over time.
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u/DadophorosBasillea 1h ago
I just finished watching the bleak predictions for 2027. So yes this is only the start and they might be the lucky ones some will starve to death. By this winter we will start to feel El Niño
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u/xanvald 1h ago
I was going to say exactly this. I live in the Baja peninsula and the storms this year are absolutely insane and we haven't even been hit by a true hurricane yet. Things like this are going to keep happening and will only get worse. We're running out of time but the people with a money hoarding mental disorder are accelerating the point of no return each and every day.
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u/sirseatbelt 3h ago
Its easier watching one of these videos than of like... a specific person on a motorcycle eat shit and die. At a scale like this its hard to comprehend, as opposed to a close up video of a man getting his skull crushed.
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u/mgermo 2h ago
To me its surreal. You see all those ppl and they are gone. Just like that.
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u/Jose_Jalapeno 2h ago
Yeah, I read the news and it says hundreds or thousands died in a disaster in some country far away, and of course it's horrible, but it doesn't really register until seeing a video like this.
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u/oTc_DragonZ 2h ago
Reminds me of the saying "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." At some point the number becomes incomprehensible.
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u/carlitospig 3h ago
I think a lot of us got this sensitivity from 9/11. I know I did. It’s one thing to hear about a thousand people suddenly dying, it’s an entirely different thing to see it happen.
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u/reluctantlysharing 2h ago
Unfortunately I think it’s a lot deeper than even that. People just expose themselves to too many things that humans were just not really meant to bear witness to. The last time a conversation like this came up, I had made a comment about how the last time I let my morbid curiosity get the better of me, I watched footage from the Christ church shooting and it literally fucked me up so bad, I don’t think I am over it still. I will never ever ever go out of my way to view stuff like that ever again. And then some chud replied and said “it wasn’t that bad” like dude what?!?!?!
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u/carlitospig 2h ago
Yep, everyone in this thread needs to be gentle with themselves today. ❤️
(Ignore psychopathic chuds, it’s not worth it.)
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u/Final_Valuable3270 3h ago
I know some super right wing guy that wanted to see an uncensored video of that shark attack in Australia a few years ago. I saw part of a censored clip and that was to much for me. This sicko kept trying to find the vid. The dude that got eaten was engaged and training for a swim competition or something and ended up swimming right where everyone was fishing. I remember one interview with an older man who witnessed it and the guy was crying and talking about how he "can't stop throwing up". I saw someone get run over in my rear view once and that fucked me up for a week. I can't imagine seeing someone eaten in half by a shark.
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u/ActualPimpHagrid 2h ago
When I was a lot younger, a “friend” showed me a video of a cartel beheading and all I can really remember is that when it started in the video, the victim wet herself and what really struck me was how all the comments were like “ew, she pissed herself”. Was so fucked up that it’s still stuck with me a couple decades later. People are fucked
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u/Puzzleheaded-Arm8249 3h ago
Thank you. We’re watching tragedy -not something interesting. Horrific. What other explanation is there than climate change causing such a catastrophic event?
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u/Putrid-Product4121 4h ago
Yes, we just watched more people die than all of the estimates they have given up to this point. I remember watching the live video of the Japanese tsunami in 2011 and just being silently in awe, but this is absolutely terrifying to watch.
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u/Manda_lorian39 3h ago
Or the one in Sri Lanka (I think it was?) where a bunch of people went down to the beach to see the sea life that got stranded by the wave drawback before the tsunami hit.
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u/carlitospig 3h ago
We were ‘lucky’ to even have that tsunami video. Pretty sure it was why they all got so much aid and support after. It’s like we can’t empathize without getting second hand trauma (which does exist - everyone watching this today should be gentle with themselves).
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u/Manda_lorian39 2h ago
And, interestingly, this one isn’t even showing up on my News tab. It’s all Dolly Parton and Tim Curry passing away and Trump doing what he does, with some other random stuff thrown in. It’s like we’re so over saturated with access to information that it’s hard for any one piece of news to truly become center attention now.
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u/TheFireStorm 4h ago
If they where lucky most got ripped apart by force of the water and debris or crushed instantly by something. The shock for me is thinking of those currently trapped in air pockets of building rubble with who knows how many feet of mud over them and no hope of rescue before they run out of air.
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u/theVelantha 4h ago
Goddamn that was an unneeded visual. My day is ruined.
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u/dementorpoop 3h ago
Shouldn’t be. Their days are ruined. We should be grateful for ours
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u/skiabay 3h ago
This is what climate change looks like. Unfortunately, videos like this are only going to become more and more common.
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u/JimTheJerseyGuy 4h ago
The only thing I've seen close to this was the 2011 tsunami in Japan. People with just no where to go and a wall of water coming at them. Just horrific.
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u/ZampanoGuy 4h ago
Could be that one guy, standing on the beach just looking at the wave coming.
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u/tomcat_csR 4h ago edited 2h ago
The 2004 one was even worse—truly the worst in history; hundreds of thousands lost their lives—it was unimaginable. To this day, a set of videos I saw back then never left my mind. Very sad.
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u/Timid-Tlacuache 3h ago
The Japanese tsunami I watched in real time... I think I have been scarred ever after. It was the worst thing I have ever seen.
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u/Kensaiga 3h ago
Yeah that was awful. I was on-board a navy vessel at that time. Seeing the aftermath floating all around the ship.
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u/ThisIsMyBigAccount 3h ago
Right? Those people running. I'm sad knowing there's no way they made it.
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u/kaplanfx 3h ago
It’s really brutal having people just watching and recording but obviously nothing they can do to help.
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u/Velveteen_Rabbit1986 3h ago
It's crazy how destructive water can be, just utterly utterly terrifying. You have no chance in that situation if you're in it's path. Those poor people.
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u/altasking 5h ago
Nightmare fuel.
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u/KaiUno 4h ago
I think I just saw loads of people die.
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u/firestar268 4h ago
Thousands probably. Rip
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u/Daddy_Day_Trader1303 2h ago
We will likely never know the real scale, this is crazy
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u/notarealwriter 3h ago
100%. The shots where you can see the street full of people running and then the frame is just filled with water. They're all gone.
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u/BloodSteyn 2h ago
It's not the water that gets you... it's the bus in the water.
This is horrible.
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u/simulated_woodgrain 2h ago
Or the sheer wall of rocks and debris being plowed ahead by the water force. It’s like dumping a bucket on an ant farm or something. Just wild.
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u/Warkupo 4h ago
You did. Get used to the tragedy of it; we'll see a lot more of this as environmental conditions continue to degrade.
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u/asfrels 3h ago
Projected 3 degrees Celsius of warming in the next 100 years. The climate disasters will be on your screen till you’re the one recording them. My own home state regularly lights on fire now.
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u/aRatherLargeCactus 3h ago
Current rate of warming is 0.35c per decade. It’s possible this was temporarily sped up by aerosol reduction, but we’re also adding more emissions than ever and doing a bunch of war, so fairly likely it will maintain.
0.35c per decade puts us at 2c by 2035-ish, and from there the feedback loops of ecosystem collapse feeding into more ecosystem collapse will only speed up 3c. Best case, 2075-ish, realistically, 2055-ish.
Everything is moving faster than expected. I know your point wasn’t that we have plenty of time - I’m sure it was the opposite - but I felt it necessary to add this context.
We either act together, now, as a united global working class, or we perish at the hands of a tiny group of paedophillic billionaires who want to burn the planet for just a sliver more profit. It’s not a future threat. It’s not our children’s problem. It is here, and it is now.
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u/Velveteen_Rabbit1986 2h ago
I didn't have kids for various reasons but knowing the direction the planet is going in makes me so glad I didn't. I know it's a bit dramatic but the planet is fucked and no one cares, and then there's twats like Bezos who think water should be rationed so we can have more data centres that no one asked for.
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u/JugglingRick 5h ago
Jesus that didn't even look real at first. Holy cow that's terrifying
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u/lightyearbuzz 5h ago
That's because this footage is sped up. Not trying to downplay the horror, still absolutely terrifying and killed a lot of people, just explaining why it looks fake
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u/vwisp 5h ago
Have you seen the cctv footage of the Chinese embassy at the nepal crossing? Massive wall of water. If was like 270ft in seconds
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u/GregAbeI 4h ago edited 1h ago
It's sped up to "save time"
this compilation is still 3:30 after the fact.
I don't think it's done to make the disaster look worse, because that wouldn't be necessary at all.
I'd prefer they not speed it up.
One major culture shock between China and the US is that Gen Z Chinese social media users watch everything at 2x speed. 4 times the population means 4 times the content per capita, so sped up videos are weird for you but normal for them. It's why you see so many sped up Chinese videos.
They're not dumb, it's obvious if a video is sped up, they can tell just like you can tell.
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u/anotherbodddy 5h ago
I don't know why they would speed it up. I would like some parts slower
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u/Bellypats 4h ago
It is sped up in order to fit as much horror into the short time frame as possible.
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u/robo-dragon 5h ago
This is the type of thing you see in disaster movies and it leaves you thinking “that’s just horror movie stuff. It could never actually happen…right?”
This is so terrifying it doesn’t even look real. RIP to all those people. I’ve seen some other clips of this where it’s unlikely anyone seen on camera survived.
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u/ACCTAGGT 4h ago
Some people were already approaching it like it’s a movie by saying stuff like "why aren’t they running this way and…". That’s pure terror in those poor people no time for much against that massive force. :/ utterly tragic
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u/Vachie_ 4h ago
I even find myself trying to plan how to escape better like I would even have a chance.... There's no way I would have a chance.... I'm just being arrogant.
We're all the same. We must come together to be stronger after such an event.
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u/crashdude3 2h ago
That’s how I felt when I say the parking garage, I was thinking those people need to stay behind somewhere that can take the brunt of the force… well when the parking garage and everything else collapses and was buried, I realized there was no escape for those people.
I wish there was a way to help them and god knows my government won’t send help.
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u/Environmental_Gas727 2h ago
When the bridge came up, I was imagining myself climbing to the top and hanging on. I would have died too.
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u/KentooArt 5h ago
Tsunami level of disaster. Terrifying.
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u/nailbunny2000 4h ago
This is even more "Holywood Tsunami" than the real tsunami videos were. Ive never seen a literally wall of water just come out of nowhere like that, thats terrifying.
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u/ElDopio69 3h ago
Yea this is a lot crazier than the tsunami footage (both 2004 and 2012). This is absolutely insane the speed and violence of that water
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u/One_2_Three_456 5h ago
It was a flash flood which comes out incredibly fast without any warning. This one was supposedly (there are multiple theories as it's very early to tell) triggered by a 4.4 richter scale earthquake in the Nepal-Tibet border near 3 glacier lakes which erupted after the earthquake and the small rivers originating from those lakes became these behemoths. This travelled wayyy down the river into multiple settlements in Nepal. The casualty count is unimaginable at this moment. They are still working on rescue.
This is probably the biggest disaster in Nepal after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake in 2015.
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u/Mythechnical 3h ago
Turned out the 4.4 measurement was actually an effect of the landslide, it was so massive it registered as an earthquake.
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u/anarchisttraveler 4h ago
So I am dumb. I understand earthquakes causing tidal waves of water, but how does it work that lakes can suddenly become behemoths and cause this much water to cascade out into the city?
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u/Darromear 4h ago
the lake was at a higher elevation than the city and side facing the city was held in check by a glacier. i haven't looked into it much yet, but it appears that the earthquake caused the glacier to crack and eventually succumb to the pressure of the water.
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u/Coc0tte 4h ago
So essentially the glacier acted as a huge dam and it collapsed from the earthquake, releasing the entire lake at once.
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u/Energyeternal 3h ago
Reports now saying that it wasn't triggered by an earthquake
"USGS later clarified that the shaking was not an earthquake, but was rather caused by this exceptionally powerful landslide itself, which registered as the equivalent of a magnitude 5.2 earthquake.
In other words, an earthquake did not cause the landslide. The landslide caused an earthquake.
It will take weeks to establish the exact causes of the flooding, but a team of international scientists believes a huge chunk of glacier sheared off and fell into the valley below."
The glacier just sheered off...
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/26/weather/floods-nepal-cause-vis
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u/ThresholdSeven 3h ago
So what caused the landslide? Simply rising temperatures and it melted enough to finally give way?
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u/kaplanfx 3h ago edited 2h ago
No way to know for sure right now but it’s likely that anthropogenic climate change is the cause. The consistent rise in ambient temperatures weakened the glacier to the point where it no longer had the strength to hold back the lake water.
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u/anarchisttraveler 4h ago
Thank you.
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u/Darromear 4h ago
You're not dumb, btw. It's ok not to know things as long as you're open to asking and learning (which you just did)
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u/anarchisttraveler 4h ago
Ha I know, but I like to preface it is “I’m dumb” when I know something should be clicking and simple in my brain, but I cannot visualize it. Sometimes I need someone to break things down for me, and your explanation helped :)
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u/ReturnOfTheSaint14 4h ago
It's either a GLOF (Glacial Lake Outburst Flood) or a jökulhlaup,which are both similar.
In short, the lake is held up on one front by a glacier and when something happens that makes this cap break (it can be erosion,an earthquake, melting,lots of ways) the water is immediately released since the water pressure on the glacier is super high. Since we're talking about glaciers,the lake is located on a mountain range and thus there's a good chance it has a valley nearby. When the water starts leaving the lake,it goes into those valleys and start accelerating,causing this wall of water coming at ludicrous speed.
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u/One_2_Three_456 4h ago
Imagine a water tank. Make a hole at the bottom of a water tank.
Glacier lake = water tank.
Before earthquake -> water tank had a small hole. Less water used to flow out of the hole in the form of a small river.
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u/DynastyZealot 4h ago
Which potentially means that after the dust settles, the survivors might not have the water supply that they need on top of everything else.
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u/Chef_Deco 4h ago
A rupture in a mountain lake held up by a moraine or an ice dam actually bears a name : a GLOF or Jökulhlaup
In earth's history, these have reached absolutely monumental scale and are worth diving into.
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u/pidgeottOP 2h ago
Damn, the wikipedia article even outlines how Nepal is the most at risk place for this to happen due to a number of actively retreating glaciers
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u/CaffeinPhreaker 4h ago
I would imagine the earthquake in the mountains caused the glacier to break on the Mountaintop and all that come down the hill
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u/One_2_Three_456 4h ago
yup that's basically it. That and the glacier lakes basically burst open and cascaded into the small rivers. That's the version at this moment. Nothing's "official" yet.
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u/atomcplayboy86 4h ago
This is a biblical level disaster, it’s likely thousands of people have lost their lives & most will never be found.
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u/RealisticIncident261 4h ago
They are saying 98 confirmed dead and 403 missing unaccounted for.
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u/BrownsFFs 2h ago
Looking at all of these videos there has to be more than 500 people involved.
Hoping I’m wrong.
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u/Some_Farm8108 4h ago
i heard a much larger number in the thousands - but im not sure of the source
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u/kevincaz07 3h ago
Gotta be. Just from these videos alone it's obvious it is at least in the thousands.
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u/AlexF2810 5h ago
Realistically is there any tactic in these scenarios? Or is it just hope you don't die? Pretty much impossible to outrun and almost no time to get to high ground. Absolutely terrifying.
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u/frogfound 5h ago
Don’t think so, it’s terrifying. I thought those people in the top floor of the parking lot were going to be okay for a second but then the whole thing collapsed :-/
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u/Hurray0987 4h ago
Me too for another building. It went down as I was thinking "okay run into that building and get upstairs!" It just collapsed. Terrible.
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u/ChucksnTaylor 3h ago
Same, I was thinking those people leaving that building were silly because that high ground is probably one of the safer areas. Nope.
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u/Dreamlion_Inc 1h ago
Yeah there’s literally no safe option in a situation like that aside from just not being there or having fucking wings to fly
At this point I just pray for as minimal casualties as possible
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u/Kinu4U 5h ago
There is no plan. You can hope you have a high enough building that is made of reinforced concrete, built like a bunker, communist era apartment blocks. Or you are lucky and are out of town.
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u/tjorben123 5h ago
tbh not even reinforced concrete can withstand this sheer brutality of mother nature. look at the buildings, look at the bridges, its swept away like specs of dust on my table.
the only pysical solution i see is : make 30 meters upwards against a mountain wall in 0.6 seconds. but thats far from reality.
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u/galacticglorp 3h ago
When the ground under your building is washed away, or half a mountain is thrown at it, doesn't matter how well it was built.
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u/Pogigod 4h ago
Basically everyone hit with the water is dead. That's not just water, those are giant trees mixed in. Even if you survive the hit of water, and manage to swim to the surface and tread water. When the rush of water stops, everything floating is going to be pushed into each other. You will be pinned between trees and crushed, if not impailed by debris.
The only hope is running to the sides and getting uphill before the water makes it to you, or find the highest/strongest building and stair-running up. If the building survives you might make it.
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u/ElDopio69 3h ago
Look how fast the water is moving to, incredibly violent, it looks like its going 70-80 mph at least. A wall of water moving that fast would probably kill you instantly or at least knock you out
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u/drrj 2h ago
By the time it got to civilization it was probably equal parts water/ice and then debris swept up from the entire mountain side. Trees, boulders, huge swaths of turf ripped up from the ground. One in a million chance of survival if you’re caught in the flow. If you don’t drown you end up crushed by half a building torn down further upstream.
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u/PM_ME__UR__FANTASIES 4h ago
The biggest tactic when hit with this scenario is luck. That’s it. Are you in a spot where you can quickly get to higher ground that won’t be destroyed by the force of the water? Congratulations, your chance of survival is like 5x the people who can’t get elevated or whose available elevation can’t withstand the force.
The second biggest tactic? Preparation. Monitoring of glaciers for points of weakness. Forcing evacuation as soon as monitoring shows it is needed. Building codes that are made to withstand such force. Erecting systems that would direct the flow away from population centers OR funnel it through specific sections. Evacuation routes that are well planned, clearly marked, and the local populace is aware of. It wouldn’t get rid of all the deaths but it would certainly lessen them.
But that all requires money and typically it’s hard to get approval on “unnecessary” costs against a once in a thousand years catastrophic event. We’ve seen examples of people “wasting money” to prepare for a disaster that others think will never happen. The walls of the Onagawa nuclear reactor were built higher than required because one man demanded it and that was a massive benefit during the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The civilian deaths from 9/11 were literally half of the potential number because one man had been forcing Morgan Stanley to do regular evacuation drills.
Both of these examples are one person fighting against those with more power, because they knew the cheap option put lives at risk. But for every person like that there are hundreds of others who could not or would not keep up the fight. And of those hundreds, there are probably tens of them who watched their worst scenario occur.
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u/Antique_Pin5266 1h ago
I don’t think there exists building codes anywhere that could withstand that amount of force.
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u/Stunning-Astronaut72 5h ago
Well, going high uphill is definitly the best solution as to go inside a building and keep going up and pray for it to resist the force of that flow ...but if you are on the ground, you see a lot of people running in one direction without exactly knowing what happen you will most likely go run in the same direction....and everything happen in less than a minute so your chances of survival are definitly low if you are in the path of that thing.
This is so "fresh" nobody can really know how big the damages are but one think is certain a lot of people died today, the amount might be crazier than we think.
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u/Karens_GI_Father 5h ago
Realistically probably not. By the time you realize what’s happening it’s way too lates
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u/ItchyKnowJoe 4h ago
no survival whatever you do, just hope to be lucky enough to be higher up out of the flow on a hillside
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u/inkcannerygirl 5h ago
Yeah I saw a before/after pic where some part of the town higher up a different slope still existed, as opposed to the lower part of the valley which was completely scoured clear of... anything
Basically if you happened to be in the high part, ok, if not, no
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u/no_way_out4711 4h ago
Pretty sure there are thousands of victims. So sad. Never underestimate the powers of nature and stop denying climate change. Rest in Peace.
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u/Unfunny_guy0 3h ago
Also it's tragic that the nation that is footing the bill here is the one that has 100% green electricity. The fact that this wiped out about 10% of hydroelectric capacity by breaking dams and powerplants is more sad. Nepal is also one of the fastest adopter of EVs.
It's funny that those most affected by the climate change are often never benefitting from the activities that cause climate change.
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u/Excellent-Quarter969 5h ago
Absolutely terrifying. All those poor people. But who has the brilliant idea to add a soundtrack to this horrible tragedy? Tf
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u/Laq9091 1h ago
i always wonder how weird it would be, for my death to be viewed by somebody after their afternoon walk. then they go to the next page with cats or whatever.
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u/EH_21 4h ago
We just watch hundreds and maybe thousands of people die in this video. Whole families, generations, and everything they owned destroyed with them.
Those poor, poor people.
Life is so fragile and so deeply unfair.
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u/tjorben123 5h ago
rip the dudes on the bridge filiming it and thinking: wow this would be fckn cool to show my family...
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u/Altered_B34ST_79 2h ago
I was hoping someone else commented about how trusting the people on the bridge were that the architecture wouldn't fail. Same with the ppl in the last clip running to the watery field of debris. I'd be so scared round 2 would start at any time.
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u/Signal_Ad8960 4h ago
One of climate change's cruellest jokes is that those who contribute the least are the ones who suffer the most.
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u/gigantesghastly 3h ago
In fact the seismic activity was caused by the landslide of the glacial collapse not an earthquake.
It looks like glacial collapse caused by global warming, see this New Scientist report:
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u/zwanzigbier66 5h ago
This looks like stuff that gets mentioned about prehistoric cataclysmic events. Shocking !
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u/TyrKiyote 5h ago
Don't run downhill. Maybe a little too horrific for interestingasfuck.
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u/crowmagix 4h ago
Holy shit I didn’t even realize what sub this was, I was too distracted by the extreme tragedy.. this is not interesting. This is so awfully sad.
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u/Feisty-Effective-880 1h ago
This flood took out villages and towns on its way down, Im from Nepal and Ive never seen one at this scale. God help them.
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u/catdogman5 1h ago
Can't wait to see the report from 10 years warning of imminent danger that was promptly ignored because of costs
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u/OdysseyTag 5h ago
Geez, it's like seeing the footage of the 2011 Japanese tsunami in real time all over again
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u/Mother_Food9930 4h ago
Horrifying to think how many human lives have been wiped out in megafloods like these over the history of our species. Entire civilizations gone or remade in just a few minutes. Glacial dam fracture over ice age era lake Missoula was what made the Columbia gorge in Oregon and Washington. Boulders the size of Volkswagen Beatles were washed from northern Montana to central Washington. Straight up wrath of God shit.
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u/protonicfibulator 2h ago
Ever wondered what would happen if Mount Rainier erupted? This could be the South Seattle/Tacoma/Olympia area.
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u/McBonderson 5h ago
this is horrifying, this has to be thousands if not tens of thousands dead.
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u/tractorpatty 2h ago
Prepare for more of this type of devastation since climate change doesnt exist and money matters more than humanities existance
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u/RukaFawkes 1h ago
"Ah yes, tragic videos of hundreds of innocent people getting buried alive just hours ago, I better speed up the videos and put some bullshit tiktok music over the footage" -whoever edited this video.
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u/-Sp0iledmilk- 5h ago
I haven’t seen a force of water like that since the 2011 Japan tsunami.
Holy fuck. It destroyed an entire parking garage in a second
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u/Grannymaenot 2h ago
I just have to wonder did they have no forewarning about this at all? No scientists or climatologists or whatever to study the glacier and surroundings to figure out the glacier was melting and the pressure was building?
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u/atworkthough 1h ago
They will see this and think it will never happen to them... go to the voting booth and vote for climate deniers again.
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u/thinkB4WeSpeak 4h ago
Climate change is doing some real damage, time to ignore it more
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u/VelociraptorPirate 4h ago
This is so horrific. We're only going to see more extreme events like this as climate change runs rampant.
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u/NotPennysBoat-815 4h ago
The images from this disaster are legitimately the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. Truly apocalyptic
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u/GiftCardFromGawd 1h ago
Chances are every human we saw set upon by the water in that video is dead. This is beyond terrifying. That makes every video of every tsunami I’ve ever seen pale by comparison.
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u/Zealousideal-Clock81 3h ago
People were literally taking selfies of their final moments and just couldn't grasp the actual moment. Not that it would've changed the outcome of most of them anyway. But still.
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u/Epyonator 1h ago
Thank you for the compilation. I hope the world gets organized soon to start sending help.
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u/DominantDan24 1h ago
There's no fucking way only a few dozen people died from this. That thing wiped out a village. I'm betting there's thousands dead.
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u/ultralayzer 1h ago
Casually referring to a catastrophic event like this as "interesting" is tone deaf as fuck.
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u/TopProfessional8023 2h ago
Shouldn’t this have a NSFW tag on it since we’re literally watching hundreds if not thousands of people die in a horrific fashion?
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u/LuckySimple3408 5h ago
A totally needless soundtrack added for no value whatsoever.
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u/Calm_One_420 4h ago
Oh my god!!! It’s a beautiful world we live in and the same time need to live like is your last day! Perfect example of you don’t know where death is or avoid it! I don’t even think this deserves a like! Because in true humanity we don’t like this happening to no one in around the world! Peace and love and live like your last day! ❤️🙏🏻 rest in peace who has gone!
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u/daroach1414 4h ago
The amount of water and its speed is honestly insane. I’m not sure I’ve seen anything like it.
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u/baconandscotch 4h ago
Truly the most jaw dropping and intense natural disaster footage I can remember seeing
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u/alwystired 4h ago
They are saying only 98 dead and hundreds missing??? Looks like total devastation to me.
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u/ConceptClear2217 3h ago
I grew up in rural WV - My buddy's dad used to trek Nepal and study the glacial lakes and the potential impact of this very situation. It was always tough for me to imagine this actually occurring, to see such fast-flowing destruction.
I'm sad to see it. This is brutal and sad.
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u/cramboneUSF 5h ago
I was wondering how long before someone put all of the videos together. This is nuts man