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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. 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 ...

4. Santiago de Tuna District, Lima Weather - Hourly Forecasts ...

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   Get the Santiago de Tuna District, Lima local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.

5. 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 ...

6. Missoula floods - Wikipedia

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   They based the Glacial Lake Missoula discharge rate on the rate predicted for the Spokane Valley–Rathdrum Prairie immediately downstream of Glacial Lake Missoula, for which several previous estimates had placed the maximum discharge of 17 × 10 6 m 3 /s and the total amount of water discharged equal to the maximum estimated volume of Lake ...

7. 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 ...

8. Category:Glacial lake outburst floods - Wikipedia

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   Pages in category "Glacial lake outburst floods" ... Glacial lake outburst flood; 0–9. 2021 Uttarakhand flood; 2023 Sikkim flash floods; 2024 Thame flood; A.

9. Glacial dam outburst in Alaska’s capital erodes riverbanks ...

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   Raging waters that ate away at riverbanks, destroyed at least two buildings and damaged others had receded Monday in Alaska's capital city after an outburst of weekend flooding from a glacial lake ...