Skip to content

Nepal

2 unrolled threads about nepal, each one readable on a single page.

emilia! missing minmin@ursculptur

🚨🚨🚨Please try to share information and/or donate about Nepal. There are over 350 dead and over a thousand missing. There are high risks of a second disaster on top of it with a large amount of sear...

SummaryNepal is experiencing a major disaster with over 350 confirmed deaths and over 1,000 missing persons. The thread urges people to share information and donate to relief organizations, while warning of secondary disaster risks during ongoing search and rescue operations.Aug 27, 202612 tweets♥ 5.7K

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