Every video emerging from Nepal is somehow even scarier than the last. A peaceful valley under a bright, completely normal sky and then suddenly look at how that wall of gushing water sweeps away everything in its path. #Nepal
In one geology class I had, the professor said something like "if you ever see boulder on a mountain, it is making its way to the ocean, and will eventually get there."
This image helps explain what happened along the Nepal–Tibet border. According to reports, a magnitude 4.4 earthquake on the Tibetan side triggered a massive ice avalanche, which then led to the flash flooding of the Bhotekoshi River in Nepal. Around 1,000 people are missing, and many have been killed.