New Study Reveals Clues About the Origins of Nepal’s Deadly Flood

[By Alissa de Chassey]

Using seismic data from Nepal and China, researchers identified dozens of small seismic events in the weeks before the August rock-and-ice collapse and ensuing flood.
By Alissa de Chassey

A new study in the journal Seismica presents the first comprehensive seismic analysis of what happened during the disastrous flood in Nepal on Aug. 26. But exactly what triggered the mountainside to give way remains unclear.