Deadly Nepal flood caused by enormous landslide, glacier tumble: Scientist
- The flooding has left over a hundred dead and hundreds missing.
- August 26, 2026, 6:34 PMThe deadly floods that have devastated parts of Nepal can be tracked all the way to the Himalayas where a "massive geophysical event" set off a chain reaction Wednesday, a geophysicist who studies such events told ABC News.
- A landslide in the mountain pass took place during the day that took away a large glacier or parts of a glacier in the Himalayas, Göran Ekström, at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University told ABC News.
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- The flooding has left over a hundred dead and hundreds missing.
- August 26, 2026, 6:34 PMThe deadly floods that have devastated parts of Nepal can be tracked all the way to the Himalayas where a "massive geophysical event" set off a chain reaction Wednesday, a geophysicist who studies such events told ABC News.
- A landslide in the mountain pass took place during the day that took away a large glacier or parts of a glacier in the Himalayas, Göran Ekström, at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University told ABC News.
Sources: Abcnews