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Uttarakhand glacial burst: New NASA satellite images show crack in mountain ice months before tragedy

Dais Newsfeed | 26/02/2021 08:57 PM | Click to read full article

American space agency NASA's Earth Observatory has released satellite images that show a crack opening on an ice-covered flank of 6,029 metre-high Ronti mountain months before the landslide.

"On the morning of February 7, 2021, this spectacular terrain in Uttarakhand turned deadly when a torrent of rock, ice, sediment, and water surged through the Rishiganga River valley past multiple villages and slammed into two hydropower stations," NASA's Earth Observatory's report said.

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