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Tsomgo Lake, also known as Tsongmo Lake or Changgu Lake, is a glacial lake in Changu in the Gangtok district of the Indian state of Sikkim, some 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the capital Gangtok. Located at an elevation of 3,753 m (12,313 ft), the lake remains frozen during the winter season.
It was identified as potentially at risk of causing glacial outburst floods, and in 2018 pipelines were carried up by yak and installed to pump water out of it. [6] Sentinel-1A images from 28 September 2023 showed the lake covering an area of 167.4 hectares (414 acres). [7] Before the flood, scientists and authorities were working on installing ...
More than 100 people are missing in India’s northeast after heavy rain caused a glacial lake to burst, leading to flash floods which ripped through the Himalayan state of Sikkim Wednesday ...
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).
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An early warning system for glacial floods was due to have been installed in the Indian Himalayas last year, but work on the project only began in September, officials said, too late to raise the ...
This is a list of notable lakes in India. [1]Bhopal is knowns as The City of Lakes, as it has 17 lakes and 5 reservoirs, biggest lake Bhojtal has an area of 31 km 2 Bangalore has highest number of small lakes Lake Palace (Jag Niwas) in Lake Pichola, Udaipur, Rajasthan Shikaras on Dal Lake, Jammu & Kashmir Boats on Naini Lake, Kumaon, Uttarakhand House boat on Vembanad Lake, Kerala Sailing on ...
A report compiled by the Sikkim State Disaster Management Authority in 2019 had identified Lhonak Lake as “highly vulnerable” to flooding that could breach dams and cause extensive damage to ...