The Mountain Broke: What Caused the Nepal–China Flash Flood?

Podcast: Meteorology Matters · Rob Jones

Opublikowano: 2026-09-02

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The seismic signal initially looked like an earthquake. It was the mountain itself collapsing. On August 26, bedrock and glacier ice tore loose high above the Nepal–China border, transforming into a rock–ice avalanche, debris flow, and devastating flood. Meteorology Matters reconstructs that cascading disaster, explains why the evidence points away from a conventional glacial-lake outburst flood, and examines how retreating glaciers and warming mountain permafrost may have destabilized the slope without pretending science has identified one...