--- title: "Natural Disaster or Mankind Mistake?" description: "It is about to be examined that what accelerated the breach — whether there was an avalanche in the region or whether the lake breach was the result of disaster" author: "Shraishth Verma" published: 2021-02-08 updated: 2021-02-09 canonical: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82213/natural-disaster-or-mankind-mistake category: "natural disaster" tags: ["uttarakhand", "natural disaster", "glacier"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Natural Disaster or Mankind Mistake? It is about to be examined that what accelerated the breach — whether there was an avalanche in the region or whether the lake breach was the result of [construction](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/167589/the-reasons-why-we-love-construction-jobs-salary), anthropological training, [climate change](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/299742/climate-change-and-health), natural [**disaster**](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81621/natural-disasters-in-2020-giving-us-alarm-warning), etc. Professionals are worried about what resulted in the massive glacier burst at Chamoli in Uttarakhand on Sunday but the happening provoked focuses on the threats of climate modification the state is sitting on. In 2013, the state was devastated by an enormous cloudburst which led to terrible floods and landslides in which hundredth of [people have died](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/33439/how-many-people-have-died-on-mount-everest) and thousands were missing. ![Natural Disaster or Mankind Mistake](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/viewsolution/851ace46-c47e-46be-9851-fdf1ce53aeff/images/49f0f6c4-5ec0-4112-8caf-be8fa0da0473.jpeg)\ ##### Glacial lake outburst flood, know what it is? Chamoli's flood outburst is being interpreted as GLOF — a violation in a glacier that is not extremely unusual. When glaciers resort, they abandon a space that evolves to be a glacial lake that is being filled with water. When such a lake breaches, it is known as a glacial lake outburst flood. ![Natural Disaster or Mankind Mistake](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/viewsolution/851ace46-c47e-46be-9851-fdf1ce53aeff/images/2fd223bf-850a-4b73-8420-1fc8d3986ad3.jpeg) Sunday's glaciers burst was assumed to be caused by the Nandadevi glacier infringement. Nandadevi is the second biggest mountain after Kanchenjunga. ##### What is an avalanche? An avalanche is tumbling abundances of snow and ice which assemble pace as it declines the slope. But an avalanche is uncertain to result in the rise of water of that magnitude what Chamoli glimpsed on Sunday. ##### Cloudburst What occurred in 2013 at Uttarakhand was a multi-day [cloud](https://www.mindstick.com/services/cloud-development) burst. It is an unexpected, very enormous rainfall supported by a thunderstorm. But it commonly happens in the monsoon. The season in which such a natural calamity was observed has surprised specialists as there is no sudden trigger that can be suggested as the justification why the [water level](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81733/global-warming-leading-to-water-level-rise-in-glaciers) rose to that level which wiped away two big hydro projects. ##### Disaster and Loss This giant glacier outbreak will manage to create a huge loss on mankind which may take the Uttarakhand and their [evolution](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/audio/1149/the-evolution-and-impact-of-movies-from-invention-to-modern-era) to 10 years back to start from scratch. ![Natural Disaster or Mankind Mistake](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/viewsolution/851ace46-c47e-46be-9851-fdf1ce53aeff/images/150c843d-d930-4e15-b214-ab441bd424da.jpeg)\ ##### Mankind Mistakes? We, humans, are aware that these glacier bursts have occurred naturally but somewhere this is caused due to humans unusual [activities](https://www.mindstick.com/interview/2589/describe-android-activities-in-brief), which should not be allowed to happen, cutting a large number of trees, drilling and constructing cities over cities, buildings, factories, misusing [natural resources](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/84661/how-humans-can-preserve-their-natural-resources), and many more. **Read More: [How to protect yourself in an earthquake](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/81559/how-to-protect-yourself-in-an-earthquake)** --- Original Source: https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82213/natural-disaster-or-mankind-mistake Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.