Uttarakhand disaster: Glacier fracture triggered tragedy, shows initial studies
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Last Updated: Feb 09, 2021, 07:43 AM IST
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“The DRDO team is analysing all available data but an initial aerial survey indicates that a hanging glacier broke away from the main glacier triggering, the tragedy. The initial assessment is that the breakaway glacier formed a lake in the narrow valley after falling. This later burst causing the damage,” Dr LK Sinha, told ET.
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Other expert teams are set to begin on-ground assessments for the examination of the debris left behind to find out more on the causes and chain of events.
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Dehradun:
A third day of massive search and rescue operation was underway today in Uttarakhand, parts of which were on Sunday hit by massive flooding following a glacier burst, killing 31 people. Disaster response teams, along with the armed forces, police, and paramilitary, continued to look for survivors among the nearly 175 missing.
Up to 450 jawans of the Indo-Tibetan Border Patrol (ITBP), five teams of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), eight teams of the Indian Army, a Navy team, and ffve Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters were engaged in the state, Union Home Minister Amit Shah informed the Rajya Sabha.
What caused the sudden deluge in Uttarakhand? While experts continue to battle out the reasons for the flash floods, some leading climate scientists believe it to be a rare incident of a glacial burst, which may be a climate change event .