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res:
  bibo_abstract:
  - On October 4, 2023, a proglacial lake named the South Lhonak lake was the source
    of a catastrophic Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF) in the Teesta river basin
    area, resulting in 24 fatalities and leaving over 70 persons missing. The GLOF
    also destroyed 13 bridges and a major hydropower plant in the Chungthang region.
    Over 60,000 individuals in four districts of Sikkim were impacted by this GLOF
    event. This study examines the factors that led to the GLOF event. Our study shows
    that the cause of this GLOF was initiated by a landslide, that dumped a substantial
    amount (~ 38.31 million m3) of debris into the South Lhonak Lake. Furthermore,
    the glacier that was connected to the lake, lost a big chunk of ice mass (~ 7
    million m3) due to calving. The combination of these two processes led to the
    collapse of the left lateral moraine that consequently generated flood waves which
    breached the terminal moraine dam of the lake. We recommend monitoring land subsidence
    and calving events for large proglacial lakes to prevent the disastrous consequences
    of such GLOFs in the future.@eng
  bibo_authorlist:
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Litan Kumar
      foaf_name: Mohanty, Litan Kumar
      foaf_surname: Mohanty
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Prateek
      foaf_name: Gantayat, Prateek
      foaf_surname: Gantayat
      foaf_workInfoHomepage: http://www.librecat.org/personId=02734268-3e8d-11ef-80a1-cec4a088d004
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Ankur
      foaf_name: Dixit, Ankur
      foaf_surname: Dixit
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Manik
      foaf_name: Das Adhikari, Manik
      foaf_surname: Das Adhikari
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Rahul
      foaf_name: Biswas, Rahul
      foaf_surname: Biswas
  - foaf_Person:
      foaf_givenName: Vivek Kumar
      foaf_name: Singh, Vivek Kumar
      foaf_surname: Singh
  bibo_doi: 10.1038/s41598-026-35895-7
  bibo_volume: 16
  dct_date: 2026^xs_gYear
  dct_isPartOf:
  - http://id.crossref.org/issn/2045-2322
  dct_language: eng
  dct_publisher: Springer Nature@
  dct_title: Sequence of events that led to the South Lhonak lake outburst flood in
    Sikkim, India@
  fabio_hasPubmedId: '41876546'
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