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Glacier sheared off, plunged 1.2km before‘liquid concrete’ flood swamped Nepal

Satellite images analysed by Isro’s national remote sensing centre showed that almost two-thirds of the glacier body had detached. A Sentinel-2 image from Aug 24 showed the glacier intact, while a Landsat-9 image taken after the disaster on Aug 26 revealed a large scar identified

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VISHANT AGARWALA28 Aug 2026, 12:58 amUpdated 8h ago1 min readIndiaIndia
Glacier sheared off, plunged 1.2km before ‘liquid concrete’ flood swamped Nepal

IndiaVISHANT AGARWALA

Satellite images analysed by Isro’s national remote sensing centre showed that almost two-thirds of the glacier body had detached. A Sentinel-2 image from Aug 24 showed the glacier intact, while a Landsat-9 image taken after the disaster on Aug 26 revealed a large scar identified as the “zone of glacier breakage and collapse”. The images also traced a broad ice-rock avalanche path descending towards the river.

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Source: Times of India · VISHANT AGARWALA. Published 28 Aug 2026, 12:58 am.

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