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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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  6. 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.

  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. Outburst flood - Wikipedia

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    In geomorphology, an outburst flood—a type of megaflood—is a high-magnitude, low-frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of a large quantity of water. [1] [2] During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods were caused by the collapse of either ice sheets or glaciers that formed the dams of proglacial ...

  9. Deadly flooding hits Indian Himalayas after glacial lake melting

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    Waters of a glacial lake breached a hydroelectric dam in the Indian Himalayan region on Wednesday, 4 October, triggering deadly flooding which has killed at least 40 people according to officials.