🚨NEW #RockAvalanche discovered in Molongqu (磨隆曲), Bome, Nyingchi, Tibet, China, via @planet. The event likely occurred between December 2 and 8, 2021. #NaturalHazards
"Large rock and/or ice avalanches (RIA) are far from rare in High Mountain Asia (HMA) and are both lethal and destructive."
I'm happy 😄 to share our new paper on RIAs in HMA that has just been published in #Geomorphology (Elsevier).
🔗https://t.co/3jhkunUOSS
#Glaciers visualize #climate change - And they win the 2023 "Climate Journalism Award" by @ejcnet
Wow!
Happy this project bringing together journalists and scientists made it
https://t.co/SsmDrefBXb
It illustrates the impact of policy-decisions on glaciers @MarcBrup @mathiaslutz
About five million cubic meters of mudflow material was deposited around the Shovi Resort (Buba River gorge, Georgian Caucasus) due to a massive mudflow that happened yesterday 4/08/23. About ten people died. Four dozen missing 😑 #stopclimatechange
Footage of an avalanche in the Kunlun Mountains (Qinghai) running into a small river. Not sure our hydrological models are quite capable of representing these yet!
📽️ https://t.co/AUJbKyJ0Zw
A #RockAvalanche event (July 2018) was found in Chayu, SE Tibet via @planet imagery, which seems to have transformed into a ~5 km long #DebrisFlow.
Any casualties?
@ccia_geneva @unige_ise @sciences_UNIGE@unige_en Prof. Markus, I am really grateful to you and the @ccia_geneva family for the warm welcome and the very genuine and patient treatment that I received, which overwhelmed me!