To test this further, the research team used the United States Geological Survey Catalog to identify 11,733 earthquakes of magnitude >4 and 67 temporally known glacial lake outburst floods since ...
In 1941, thousands of people died in Huaraz when the natural dam on a lake above the city gave way. Now, melting glaciers are raising the chances of it happening again Photographs by Harriet ...
The Administrative Secretary of the Ladakh Disaster Management Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (DMRRR) Department, Amit Sharma, today convened a meeting to address potential threats of ...
OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - Flooding is an often-overlooked aspect of storms. According to the National Weather Service, flooding ...
Rising temperatures have increased the risk of glacial lake bursts of the kind that devastated the Kedarnath valley in 2013 ...
SWAT: Glacial lake outburst floods (Glofs) have wreaked havoc on people’s lives and livelihoods in the picturesque valleys of Utror, Gabral, and Mankiyal in northern Pakistan. The residents told ...
Storms will likely be widespread Wednesday morning with the threat of severe weather continuing for the southern half of the ...
Government today accorded sanction to the constitution of Focussed Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) Monitoring Committee ...
Severe storms are battering parts of the South with torrential rain and damaging winds, threatening tornadoes and creating “life-threatening” flooding. Crews were responding to “10 to 15 ...
A potential failure of the Panguitch Lake Dam in southern Utah's Garfield County has residents closely monitoring the Level 2 ...
Dehradun, Mar 27 (PTI) The Uttarakhand government has formed two teams of experts to conduct a risk assessment and survey of five glacial lakes in the state that are highly vulnerable to "outburst ...