Never seen anything of the sort apart from the Tsunamis in Japan and Indian ocean.
This event is the "big brother" of what happened in Italy in 2022 with the Marmolada glacier collapse which was tiny compared to this. Additionally, the orography in Tibet/Nepal is much more dramatic (higher elevations, steeper slopes, narrower valleys).
I am really astonished by the videos circulating online.
I wonder how long they had from the collapse to it reaching villages. Here in Switzerland glaciers and thawing mountains are monitored pretty closely with sensors. Villages are evacuated when it starts to get dangerous.
The sheer amount of land mass that moved triggered seismometers all over the place. One seismometer registered a 5.2M. To put this in perspective, on the surface of the earth, quake energy does not travel very well. For this to make a seismometer register that high would require an absolutely terrifying massive amount of land to be moving on the surface.
Current estimates are the slide itself was roughly half a mile wide. That's absolutely massive.
https://www.reddit.com/r/geography/comments/1vzanzz/new_sate...
Twitter links should be banned from HN.
Just another day on Wikipedia.
This event is the "big brother" of what happened in Italy in 2022 with the Marmolada glacier collapse which was tiny compared to this. Additionally, the orography in Tibet/Nepal is much more dramatic (higher elevations, steeper slopes, narrower valleys).
I am really astonished by the videos circulating online.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vajont_Dam
Current estimates are the slide itself was roughly half a mile wide. That's absolutely massive.