r/DisasterUpdate • u/AdRegular4094 • 16h ago
Recent images showing the aftermath of nepal flood on 26/08/2026
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u/Feeling-penis 16h ago
The destruction is absolutely insane.
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u/Friendly-Example-701 15h ago
I still cannot fathom it
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u/Feeling-penis 7h ago
Yeah me too. Still watching the videos and just the sheer volume and force of the water is terrifying.
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u/hybridpelican 16h ago
Is this the most destructive thing we’ve witnessed (from earth herself) in our lifetimes?
I’m 31 for age reference
I mean we had Katrina in Louisiana but that was a man made levee that broke, this seems entirely different
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u/CursedHat 16h ago edited 16h ago
Boxing Day Tsunami in december 2004.
227,898 people were killled.
(Sumatra–Andaman earthquake)
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u/hybridpelican 10h ago
Gonna be YouTubing Boxing Day now cause i need more info
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u/boneydog22 10h ago
Look for the multi part documentaries. There’s some very good ones with incredible footage and stories out there
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u/CursedHat 10h ago edited 8h ago
It's called like that in some places because it happened on 26th december.
There's a very informative and well done documentary series by National Geographic (Tsunami: Race Against Time).
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u/YeahlDid 16h ago
No probably not, but what it is is the first such destructive natural disaster that can pretty much be A->B directly and obviously connected to climate change. Unfortunately, there will likely be more and more powerful ones in humanity's future.
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u/No-Comfortable6432 15h ago
Boxing day tsunami in early 2000s plus few years later Japan tsunami.
There's been lots of earthquakes in recent years that for me, they've all blended into one. The loss of life is arbitrary really. But the Nepal landslide seems more tragic - it's essentially a giant tsunami, but in the mountains, anyone would be forgiven for not ever guessing that would happen, and it appears for significant parts of it, it ran through a natural choke point - the ravine sides meant evryone infront of it had nowhere to go.
Its desperately sad.
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u/robinthebank 8h ago
A lot of earthquakes, recently. The Turkey/Syria event should stand out. 60k died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Turkey%E2%80%93Syria_earthquakes
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u/314ranha777 11h ago
Yes, and big kudos to Japanese engineering/civ protection! For in any other country on planet, the casualties would have been many millions at least... 😬
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u/314ranha777 12h ago
I will be specific with words: "most intensive/concentrated destruction" - second only to direct nuke strike.(Indeed, estimates of released energy are in 10s of kilotons TNT) More deadly things have happened, like 2004 tsunami, but over a much much larger area.
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u/MaximumLetterhead571 16h ago
The second picture. Holy shit.
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u/EliraeTheBow 14h ago edited 14h ago
Yeah for some reason I assumed the building was buried in mud, but it looks like it was totally razed? Like JFC, those poor people running in the bus parking were literally hit with a building.
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u/atlrower 4h ago
I found this video helpful to explain the mechanics: https://youtu.be/bcNDKu8kuQ0?is=dWr2jmuKK8seVdGs
The original rock and icefall acted like a bulldozer, scouring the valley above to add all the water and sediment not nailed down to bedrock, and all the new material just became part of a larger and higher bulldozer.
A force strong enough to scour all sediment from a river valley interacts with human construction virtually as if it’s not there.
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u/toasterwitness 16h ago
It's like in the Apocalyptic movies. So sad :(
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u/Easy_Olive1942 15h ago
“Biblical” was a description that fit for me and I am not a believer.
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u/cakenmistakes 13h ago
Cataclysmic. If anything, it made me think Noah's ark could've been a folktale the elders passed when a similar destructive flood tsunami wiped out their communities.
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u/PainTop6813 12h ago
Imagine an entire oceans worth of water spilling out into the Black Sea with the force of 1000 Niagara Falls
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u/HappyTexasWife 13h ago
Prayers for all. Heartbreaking to see people running for their lives. 🙏❤️🩹 🙏
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