Death on Tap: Nepal's Glacial Floods Expose Human Hubris Footage from Nepal's Rasuwa district shows apocalyptic scenes: muddy waters churning through villages, sweeping away bridges and homes, and claiming at least 162 lives.
The disaster is a stark reminder that we still have much to learn about the fury of nature, particularly when it comes to glacial floods. The immediate cause was a magnitude 5.
2 glacial collapse, which sent ice, rock, and debris tumbling downstream. Climate researchers point to an ice rock avalanche from a glacier as the likely trigger.