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Kyang Thang རྐྱང་ཐང་

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Roams the Tibetan plateau. Representative of the tableland's fauna and landscapes. Loves mountains, maps and wildlife and weather.

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Kyang Thang རྐྱང་ཐང་@Kyangs_Thang

1) Understandably many are confused where so much water came from with no lakes. We need to understand the scale of this. 🧵 > The glacier face that collapsed is ~1.5 kms wide & 1.4 kms deep....

SummaryA glacier collapse in Nepal released catastrophic energy equivalent to 30-40 Hiroshima explosions as it traveled 20km downslope, destroying the Rasuwagadhi border crossing. The immense potential energy from a 1.4km-high glacier face pulverized ice and rock into a dense sludge that gained destructive force traveling through steep terrain.Aug 27, 20265 tweets♥ 7.2K