@seek
Kolkata is too much far away, The alert is in the immediate regions, towns and cities near the Himalayan foothills.
Though till yet no significant rise in water level is noted in the regions.

@mur2501 oohw I see hope soon everything will be under control .

@seek
It seems to be in control now as the water get's dispersed in the tributaries.
But it's still mysterious how did a glacier breach happened in winter 🤔

@mur2501 Because of the movement of the glacier. @seek

@floof-rocks
Glacier by definition is an ice flowing under it's own stress

Also glacier breach here refers to large water body contained in the glacier which outbursts when the glacier breaks.
@seek

@mur2501 @seek See

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icefall

and

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumbu_Glacier

and other examples in the first link.

@floof-rocks
I see
I also don't know for sure, different news channels saying different things
Though the latest one said that a big chunck of glacier broken from the main and fell into a lake or water body or something 🤔

@seek

@mur2501 Here the news say a part of the glacier falls in a river. Whatever, glaciers move and also ice can break specially if they move to fast over a stage - is a gravity thing. @seek

@floof-rocks
Well whatever it was, it has cause a hell lot of chaos.

@seek

@mur2501 It is to expect that it was that. And as more the temperature rises as often things like that will happen. I can´t remember in detail but saw in the last months a report about the alps in Switzerland. Glacier researchers montior mountains as the part of the glacier you see is not all. The ice is also between the rocks and inside parts of the mountains. If it is frozen it is like a clue, if it melts .... nothing now happened but if. @seek