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Cause determined for India’s deadly disaster

A team of scientists find that the 2021 disaster was triggered by a massive rock and ice avalanche.

The destroyed Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric plant after debris flow on 7 February, 2021.
The destroyed Tapovan Vishnugad hydroelectric plant after debris flow on 7 February, 2021. Credit: Irfan Rashid, Department of Geoinformatics, University of Kashmir