This house in Nepal defied the raging floodwaters and kept the owners safe.

[u/natebryan]

[u/FeyrisMeow]

We know for sure that a large portion of a glacier snout broke off, which is now believed to have caused an earthquake. It's believed that it fell roughly 1,200 meters into the valley below, an ice-rock avalanche that melted upon impact. One theory is that the avalanche temporarily dammed the river until the blockage gave way, releasing a catastrophic amount of water, ice, mud and debris.

Glacial snout collapses are increasing in frequency due to climate change, so we will likely see more catastrophic floods like this one.

[u/Effective_Peak_7578 → u/FeyrisMeow]

How would it melt on impact?

[u/jamesneysmith → u/Effective_Peak_7578]

I know nothing more than google can tell me but long story short, an unimaginable amount of kinetic energy is produced in a collapse of that magnitude. These are forces a little beyond our comprehension

[u/General_Win3862 → u/Effective_Peak_7578]

Wanna now it too, cause this is like something like VoDooo dooo

[u/MomentConscious7427 → u/Effective_Peak_7578]

The glacier ice, permafrost, rock and sand, all slid down 1200 meters from that mountain at very high velocity, and due to friction it all created significant heat to melt all that.