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Recent flood in Kedarnath

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  • 1.What Caused the tragedy in Kedarnath??

2. Kedarnath an instinct for heaven 3. Location of kedarnath 4. The hellish rain have turned Kedarnath into a Ghost town 5. Heavy floods in Kedarnath, Himalayan Tsunami.. What caused it.??? You ve heard of Homicide, well this is a ecocidesays environmentalis 6. The event was triggered by prolonged rainfall interspersed with atleast one Cloud burst type event 7. What is cloud burst??? 8. Man made disaster We are playing with nature.. but at the same time blaming the nature 9. Road building and extensive mining in the mountains A estate boom in the region has also resulted in new development 10. The dam projects and river diversion for roads Had Backed up with flood waters from torrentials rains 11. Hydroelectricity projects A ticking time bomb 12. State apathy led to the disaster??? 13. Reasons for the overflow of the river along with the debri The collapse of a moraine-dammed lake A catastrophic landslide onto, and then down, the glacier A landslide below the glacier created a dam, which then ruptured, releasing the flood A landslide event in a higher valley that became a channelised debris flow A simple case of too much rain on a large catchment, and a misplaced town 14. Before After Atlast but not th we too aqe qesponsible foq