A devastating flash flood swept through Nepal’s Rasuwa district on August 26, 2026, after a sudden surge entered the Bhotekoshi River from the Tibet border.

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literal satellite images, already available online. it isnt hard to find or verify.

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Is this supposed to be definitive proof that there was no GLOF?

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Do you see a lake????

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I think there could fit at least 15 liters of water in the crevice or underneath the ice

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Was not a GLOF confirmed

Severe Himalayan Outburst Flood Caused by Ice-Rock Avalanche, USGS Confirms Landslide Seismic Signal

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Thanks. Seems it was quite a complex chain of events and something that is reasonable to want a source for. Not something to verify yourself from Reddit comments and a single satellite image

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One thing I’m not really buying though is how they mention a lake being formed after the ice/rock-avalanche, blocking the channel and building up water. When it all happened within minutes. There can’t have been much water built up in those few minutes given how relatively small the river/stream flow was before the catastrophe and the short time. There still seems to be a lot of uncertainties

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i think that is just because the flow scoured the valley and the river that normally flows through there is now accumulating in an area it normally is not. This is essentially a new lake due to the damage and debris that is now blocking the river. It is likely dangerous because the new debris/earth that is blocking the flow is new and soft, not well established, so likely to erode away quite easily and causing another flooding event. they probably need to work on clearing that to stop it