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Twin Avalanches Puzzle Glaciologists


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'Unprecedented' Twin Avalanches Puzzle Glaciologists

An icy whodunit is gripping glaciologists puzzled over two massive ice avalanches in Tibet that seemed at first to have no culprit.

On July 17, a huge pile of ice and rock plunged nearly 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) down a valley in Tibet's Aru Range, before tumbling into a nearby lake, killing nine herders and hundreds of animals along the way, according to a scientific report on the event. The usual suspects were not in sight: Temperatures in the prior months were normal, rainfall was normal and the avalanching material had been sitting on relatively flat ground, reported NASA's Earth Observatory.

In September, the mystery deepened when another huge ice avalanche occurred nearby. "Even one of these gigantic glacier avalanches is very unusual," said Andreas Kääb, a glaciologist at the University of Oslo in Norway, as reported by the Earth Observatory. "Two of them within close geographical and temporal vicinity is, to our best knowledge, unprecedented."

Read more: Live Science

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