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Kristen Cook

Geomorphologist at Université Grenoble Alpes who works on seismic signatures of landslides, debris flows and other mass-wasting events.

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Nepal's deluge began as a glacier falling a kilometre into a river it then dammed

Satellite and seismic analyses point to ice that snapped off above 5,000 metres, blocked the Lhende Khola and burst through hours later. Almost no rain preceded it, which is why the region's flood warning tools had nothing to read.

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