One of the more devastating floods was in Peru in 1941 and it killed between 1,800 and 6,000 people. A 2020 glacial lake outburst flood in British Columbia, Canada, caused a tsunami of water about ...

Glacial Lake Missoula was metastable and its ice dam released episodic megafloods, whereas glacial Lake Columbia was stable and did not drain through its ice dam. Undergraduate research assistant ...

And Lake Missoula wasn't the only ice-dammed lake. One in northern Washington, Glacial Lake Columbia, formed when ice blocked the Columbia and, for a time, sent it down Grand Coulee — the water ...

Nearly 14,000 years after breaking free and rushing headlong into the Pacific Ocean, Glacial Lake Missoula continues to influence life in its namesake valley – and beyond.

Downstream from glacial Lake Missoula, the Columbia River was dammed by another ice lobe, forming glacial Lake Columbia. When Lake Missoula’s outburst floods poured into Lake Columbia, the water ...

Dig Tsho, a glacial lake in Nepal that burst in August 1985 MattW via Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Melting ... In 2020, a 330-foot-tall wave burst from a glacial lake in British Columbia, ...

A 2020 glacial lake outburst flood in British Columbia, Canada, caused a tsunami of water about 330 feet high, but no one was hurt. A 2017 glacial outburst flood in Nepal , set off by a landslide ...