“On 3 October 2023, a multi-hazard cascade in the Sikkim Himalaya, India, was triggered by 14.7 million m3 of frozen lateral moraine collapsing into South Lhonak Lake, generating a 20 m tsunami ...

At least 70 people - including nine soldiers - have died, and more than 100 others are missing after South Lhonak, a glacial lake in the Himalayas, burst its banks last week.

The death toll from flash floods unleashed by a glacial lake bursting its banks in India’s Himalayas climbed to 74 on Monday with 101 people still missing days after the calamity struck ...

A GLOF at South Lhonak lake in Sikkim caused 42 deaths. ... In 1990, the South Lhonak glacier was 6.4 km long. A research article published in 2021 found that, by 2019, ...

According to research by IISc’s team of glaciologists, the volume of the South Lhonak lake (in 2015) was estimated as 60 ± 10.8 million cu.m with the projection that with prolonged retreat of ...

Sikkim’s South Lhonak lake was on the radar since 2016, when a sensor to monitor water level and pipes were installed to facilitate siphoning, or removing of excess water.

The study highlighted that South Lhonak Lake had witnessed significant growth in the past decades due to glacial retreat, thereby increasing its chances of glacial lake outburst floods.

Severe weather events like the lake burst in Sikkim are becoming more commonplace in South Asia. School children walking through a waterlogged road after monsoon rainfall in Mumbai on July 21, 2023.

A deadly flash flood in the north-east state of Sikkim shows why India urgently needs to install advanced early warning systems for its dangerous glacial lakes, experts say. At least 70 people ...

After deadly flash floods in Sikkim, experts question why an early warning system was not in place. Let us know you agree to data collection on AMP. We and our partners use technologies, ...