Reposted by Jesse Floria
The recent flooding disaster in #Nepal was caused by melting glaciers in the Himalayas loosening the rocky mountainsides. The glacier collapse read as a 5.2 magnitude earthquake.
As climate change worsens, more of these flash floods are prone to happen.
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What we know -- and don't know -- about what cause the Nepal flood wave | CNN
It will take weeks to establish the exact causes, but a team of international scientists believes a huge chunk of glacier sheared off and fell into the valley below.
