‘Like a bomb exploded’: How an enormous chunk of ice likely triggered catastrophe

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  • The phenomenon is known as an ice avalanche, which an expert described as plunging more than a kilometre after snapping off a glacier.S1S2
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‘Like a bomb exploded’: How an enormous chunk of ice likely triggered catastrophe

The phenomenon is known as an ice avalanche, which an expert described as plunging more than a kilometre after snapping off a glacier.

‘Like a bomb exploded’: How an enormous chunk of ice likely triggered catastrophe