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On 4 October 2023, heavy rains caused the glacial South Lhonak lake in Sikkim, a state in northeastern India, to breach its banks, causing a glacial lake outburst flood. [1] The flood reached the Teesta III Dam at Chungthang at midnight, before its gates could be opened, destroying the dam in minutes. [2]
Location of lake burst shown in red hatch. On 16 August 2024, two glacier lakes burst in Thame village of the Everest region in Solukhumbu District of Nepal. The flood damaged a number of households of Khumbu Pasanglhamu Rural Municipality. [1] [2] Initially, the flood was believed to be due to the blocked river breached by a landslide.
The death toll from flash floods unleashed by a glacial lake bursting its banks in India’s Himalayas climbed to 74 on Monday with 101 people still missing days after the calamity struck ...
Flooding in Nepal coincided with 2024 floods in neighbouring and nearby states of India, such as Uttar Pradesh and Assam. Nepalese weather official Binu Maharjan stated that a low-pressure system lingering over nearby regions of India and over the Bay of Bengal was the primary cause of the increased and prolonged flooding in 2024.
India has begun work to designate as dead at least 79 people who went missing in floods unleashed by a Himalayan glacial lake outburst two weeks ago, a senior official said on Friday, taking the ...
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).
Sikkim, which is wedged between China, Nepal and Bhutan, has revised the death toll from last week's disaster downwards from 74 saying some bodies were counted two times – once by local ...