Editorial | Environment | Glacier | Climate
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ANDEAN TSUNAMI - A tsunami is not an exclusive event of the Seas: Now, mountains can also cause destructive waves // On Sunday April 11, 2010, a block of ice from the Hualcán Glacier rushed into a lagoon, causing an eighty feet tsunami, that deluged communities standing near the Chucchún river and continued expanding its way to Carhuaz city in Ancash. Alerted by the noise, people fled to higher ground to save their lives. The outcome of the disaster was not humanitarian, but many of them lost everything: the wave destroyed entire houses, washed away crops and killed much of the livestock in rural areas. Today, Carhuaz is not calm. They live in fear of another tsunami overflow, which perhaps this time, will devastate the city.
