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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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Warning System, Glacier Studies: Glaciologists Suggest Ways to Address Uttarakhand-like Tragedies
A view of damaged dam after the Nanda Devi glacier broke and crashed into the dam in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand on February 7, 2021. (REUTERS)
Glaciologists pointed out that to be better prepared for the kind of calamity that happened in Uttarakhand recently, what we need to do urgently is to start mapping the hazard and vulnerable areas where the possibilities of GLOF and landslides are higher.
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While the investigation is ongoing to ascertain the cause of flash flood in Uttarakhand s Chamoli district, it is being suspected that either an avalanche or a glacier lake outburst flood (GLOF) was responsible for it. So far, 31 deaths have been reported due to the natural calamity which took place on Sunday, and media reports claim that 170 people are still missing.
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February 09, 2021
This photograph provided by National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) shows NDRF personnel search for more than three dozen power plant workers trapped in a tunnel after part of a Himalayan glacier broke off Sunday and sent a wall of water and debris rushing down the mountain in Tapovan area of the northern state of Uttarakhand, India, Monday, February 8, 2021.
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The collapse of a part of a Himalayan glacier in Chamoli district in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand on February 7 has unleashed a massive disaster in the region. Around 26 people have lost their lives in the deluge so far and another 171, many of them workers in hydropower projects, are missing. Som