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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. 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 ...

  5. 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 ...

  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. Glacial dam outburst floods Alaska's capital, damages homes - AOL

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    The flood came almost exactly a year after a record-breaking glacial dam outburst at Suicide Basin caused similar flooding. In 2023, the Mendenhall River crested at 14.82 feet, the National ...

  8. South Lhonak Lake - Wikipedia

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    South Lhonak Lake is a glacial-moraine-dammed lake, located in Sikkim's far northwestern region. [2] It is one of the fastest expanding lakes in the Sikkim Himalaya region, and one of the 14 potentially dangerous lakes susceptible to Glacial lake outburst flood (GLOFs).

  9. Officials begin to assess damage following glacial dam ...

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    More than 100 homes were damaged by flooding following a glacial dam outburst that has become a perennial hazard for neighborhoods near Juneau’s Mendenhall Glacier, officials estimated Tuesday ...

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