There are still frustratingly located clouds, but I think this is the source of this weekend's flood in the Budhi Gandaki Nepal (as seen from @planet.com imagery) - a landslide originating on an ~45 degree mountain at ~6500 m asl, and crashing onto a glacier ~1.2km below. @davepetley.bsky.social 🧪⚒️

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From tiny rockfalls to enormous slope collapses, landslides can happen almost anywhere - and some have devastating consequences. But what causes them, can we predict them, and how could climate change make them more common? New explainer via @davepetley.bsky.social. www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/new...

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Buildings in the valley just obliterated. 😳 seems like those filming had some warning which is encouraging. Must be terrifying to be there.

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Another flow disaster in Nepal, just one catchment to the west of the Trishuli. This one is also caused by a landslide, but with a different mechanism - the landslide dammed the river and an outburst flood followed. Landslide was at 4:22 local time, and the largest flood pulse started around 6 am.

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A K Blackmore is funny! And she’s damn right about Donna Tartt: the latter’s “The Secret History” is pretentious twaddle. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

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