When an immense and inexorable flow of rock, mud and water barreled through northern Nepal on August 26, it killed more than 1,200 people and left thousands still missing. The magnitude of the event caught even experts on the region’s geology off guard.
“The victims, their pain and all the ruined towns … it is almost impossible to believe,” says geological engineer Ranjan Dahal of Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu, Nepal, who has studied geohazards in the Himalaya for nearly 30 years. “I don’t think even Hollywood could make such a movie.”
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