International disaster alerting system
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Issued orange flood alert on Aug 28
The morning of August 26, a 600-meter-wide slab of glacier and rock peeled off Langtang Lirung, a 23,700-foot peak on the Nepal-China border, and fell 1,200 meters into the valley. The debris dammed the Lhende Khola river; hours later the dam burst, sending a wall of ice, mud, and water down the Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers.
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Issued orange alert for the Longchang quake
A shallow magnitude 5.0 earthquake struck near Longchang City in Sichuan Province at 1:13 p.m. local time on August 28. The quake hit 10 kilometers below the surface, within 100 kilometers of 15.8 million people.
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