| ▲ | pcthrowaway a day ago | |
Do you have a source about the Nepalese flood being a Lahar? I've only read that it was caused due to the glacier collapse, which seems like a different thing | ||
| ▲ | hodgesrm 15 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Thanks, I see that Lahars are technically associated with volcanoes as another comment noted. They have a variety of causes of which glacial collapse is one. [0] The term jökulhlaup describes a flood originating from a glacier, for example draining of a glacial lake. [1] It now seems the Nepali flood was triggered by a landslide onto a glacier. As a practical matter the effects are pretty similar. Rainier has had lahars and jökulhlaups in the past. | ||
| ▲ | waste_monk a day ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I can't access the OP article at the moment, but there's a diagram of the the chain of events that caused the disaster here [1]. I believe Lahars are specifically volcanic, this would be better described as a combination flood and landslide at the same time. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6y8mjmnpxv0t?post=asset%3Ac6b... | ||