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  2. Glacial lake outburst flood - Wikipedia

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    A flood caused by a glacial lake outburst flood on 13 December 1941 killed an estimated 1,800 people along its path in Peru, including many in the town of Huaraz. The cause was a block of ice that fell from a glacier in the Cordillera Blanca mountains into Lake Palcacocha. This event has been described as a historic inspiration for research ...

  3. Lake Palcacocha - Wikipedia

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    In April 2003, NASA scientists discovered a fissure in the glacier above Lake Palcacocha on Terra satellite images of November 2001. Their warnings reached Peru just two weeks after the staff of the UGRH (Unidad de Glaciologia y Recursos Hidricos) had done some field mapping of Lake Palcacocha, where a moraine rupture had caused a minor flood on 19 March 2003 which the safety constructions ...

  4. Study: 15 million people live under threat of glacial floods

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    As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe live under the threat of a sudden and deadly outburst flood, a new study finds. More than ...

  5. Threat of deadly glacial lake outbursts hang over 15 million ...

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    One million people live within six miles of potentially unstable glacial-fed lakes, ... News. 24/7 help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Login / Join.

  6. Melting glaciers leave homes teetering in valley of jagged ...

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    Upstream, a glacial lake had formed, then suddenly burst - sending water, boulders and debris cascading down the valley and gathering speed. The ground trembled so violently some people thought ...

  7. Lliuya v RWE AG - Wikipedia

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    Lliuya v RWE AG (2015) Case No. 2 O 285/15 (Essen Oberlandesgericht) is a German tort law and climate litigation case, concerning liability for climate damage in Peru from a melting glacier, against Germany's largest coal burning power company, RWE, which has caused approximately 0.47% of all historic greenhouse gas emissions.

  8. Bursting ice dam in Alaska highlights risks of glacial ...

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    One of the more devastating such events killed up to 6,000 people in Peru in 1941. A 2020 glacial lake outburst flood in British Columbia, Canada, caused a surge of water about 330 feet (100 ...

  9. Jökulhlaup - Wikipedia

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    Finally, Lake Agassiz was an immense glacial lake located in the center of North America. Fed by glacial runoff at the end of the last glacial period, its area was larger than all of the modern Great Lakes combined, and it held more water than contained by all lakes in the world today. It drained in a series of events between 13,000 BP and ...