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Columbia Climate School

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The larger map (A) shows the Pho Chhu river as it flows from the Himalayas into the Bay of Bengal. Seismometer locations are marked with yellow dots. The inset (B) zooms in on the area inside the red box in A, indicating the area where the glacial lake outburst flood began and the location of the village of Punakha 90 kilometers downstream.

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Maurer et al./Science Advances 2020

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