@seek
An avalanche on the Himalayas making all the rivers originating there to flood. These river are the sources for the Ganges river which is a very major river of South Asia

@mur2501 damn! how tragic. So does that mean even cities like Kolkata will be affected?

@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

@chiasm
They have only found 10 bodies till yet. Though the water is calm of the foothills of Himalayas so it seems the disaster wouldn't move on downstream much.

@mur2501 So tragic! I'm glad downstream will be spared, but the loss of power will be felt widely as well, I'm sure.

@chiasm
If it has reached the Ganges river then it would have been more then a tragedy as more then 500 million people live on the Ganga river basin

@mur2501 omg--that defies imagination. 😱

@trinsec
It would have got more impressive if it would have breached more dams and reach the Ganga river basin on the plain which has a population of 500 million

@mur2501 Eh, that's not impressive, that's an outright disaster. :/

@trinsec
But if global warming continues that's what gonna happen

@mur2501 Yeah, I think so too. We're going to face some interesting challenges of our own here as well. Nobody's exempt from this and I bet Antarctica will become a tropical paradise.

@mur2501 (A tropical paradise 6 months of the year. The other 6 months will be freezing dark.)

@mur2501 @trinsec Not but if ... it will.