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Attabad Lake (also Atta Abad Lake) is a landslide dam lake in the Hunza Valley of northern Pakistan created in January 2010. The lake was formed due to a massive landslide at Attabad village in Gilgit-Baltistan, 9 miles (14 km) upstream (east) of Karimabad that occurred on January 4, 2010. The landslide killed twenty people, buried and inundated the Karakoram Highway and blocked the flow of the Hunza River for five months. The lake flooding has displaced 6,000 people from upstream villages, stranded (from land transportation routes) a further 25,000, and inundated over 12 miles (19 km) of the Karakoram Highway. The lake reached 13 miles (21 km) long and over 100 meters in depth by the first week of June 2010 when it began flowing over the landslide dam, completely submerging lower Shishkat and partly flooding Gilmat. The subdivision of Gojal has the greatest number of flooded buildings, over 170 houses and 120 shops. The residents also had shortages of food and other items due to the blockage of the Karakoram Highway. By June 4 water outflow from the lake had increased to 2000 cusecs.


Aftermath of landslide


Victims of the landslide and expansion of the lake staged a sit-in protesting the lack of government action and compensation payments to them.

Attabad has been visited by current and former Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gillani and Nawaz Sharif, and by the Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Sharif announced Rs100 million of aid for the victims from the Punjab government and Rs0.5 million for the relatives of those who died in the landslide.

Areas downstream from the lake remained on alert despite some officials believing that a major flood scenario was less likely as the river began flowing over the landslide dam during the first week of June 2010. Many people have been evacuated to 195 relief camps. Two hospitals downstream, the Kashrote Eye Vision Hospital and the Aga Khan Health Service, evacuated both their staff and equipment. Some officials had incorrectly predicted that as soon as the lake began flowing over the landslide dam, a 60 feet (18 m) wave would hit the areas immediately downstream

This photograph was taken while a secondary landslide was taking place near Attabad village in northern Pakistan on January 22, 2010, after the original massive landslide of January 4th blocked most of the Hunza Valley and dammed the Hunza River

Huge clouds of dust arise as land slides continued on January 6, 2010, the second day of the Attabad disaster

Heavy machinery is employed to lift and carry a wooden boat up the side of the landslide debris to be deposited in the lake to aid evacuation and supply missions on April 6, 2010.

This image, acquired by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI) aboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on March 16th, 2010 shows the blocked Hunza River and the growing lake, then 11 km (7 mi) long, inundating several villages and 5 km (3 mi) of the Karakoram Highway. Landslide blockage is at lower right.

The Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) on the Terra satellite acquired this false-color image of the landslide lake on June 1, 2010 - now 16km (10 mi) long. Compare to image image #19 above, taken 10 weeks earlier, and see that the lake has grown by 5km in length. Water appears in varying shades of blue. Vegetation is red. Bare rock appears in shades of brown and gray.

In this mage taken on Thursday March 11, 2010, bulldozers leveling a ground to make spill for water accumulated in a lake due to blockade the Hunza River in Attabad, northern Pakistan. A massive landslide early this year formed a natural dam in the Hunza river created a lake that is consuming upstream as it expands. If dam breaks, a flash flood could threaten downstream villages.

Workers use machines to dig a spillway to release water pressure built up by the natural dam caused by a landslide in Attabad village in Hunza district of northern Pakistan May 12, 2010. Fears are growing a lake created by a landslide will burst and cause a massive flood that could affect more than 50,000 people in northern Pakistan and disrupt a key trade link with China, residents said on Wednesday.

After the lake began to flow through the spillway that was cut into the landslide debris on May 29th, the flow of the water has increased, but still does not match the inflow upstream from the Hunza River. And - as is evidenced by these two images (May 30th on the left, June 4th on the right), the outflow is eroding the debris, working back toward the lake - potentially signaling an upcoming breach where nearly five months worth of river flow might wash away the dam and cause serious flooding downstream. Scientists and authorities are monitoring the situation and evacuations have been undertaken for all threatened areas.

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[noah81]

Allah is testing Pakistan

[somerandomguy]

Thanks Gutts, was trying to find out the other day what had happened with this. When I first read of the current flooding in Pakistan I figured this lake had started flowing, guess not? Eventually the water will eat away the landslide dam and release the water, no?

[ChockFullOfChock]

Yet another disaster waiting to happen. I wonder why they don't take the opportunity to make a dam out of it for water and hydro power...

[güttsfükk]

Originally Posted by somerandomguy ↗

Thanks Gutts, was trying to find out the other day what had happened with this. When I first read of the current flooding in Pakistan I figured this lake had started flowing, guess not? Eventually the water will eat away the landslide dam and release the water, no?

I havent seen any images from this area with the current floods. wouldnt mind seeing if it's had an effect on that region though. there seem to be floods everywhere at the moment

Originally Posted by ChockFullOfChock ↗

I wonder why they don't take the opportunity to make a dam out of it for water and hydro power...

good idea

[zadfrackglutz]

wow, never saw mention of this on the news, i guess was not important enought here in the land of milk and honey. feel bad for these people. but a damn would make sense. awesome post.

[ChockFullOfChock]

Originally Posted by zadfrackglutz ↗

wow, never saw mention of this on the news, i guess was not important enought here in the land of milk and honey. feel bad for these people. but a damn would make sense. awesome post.

They're too busy hating you to do anything like that:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11040904

[güttsfükk]

all pictures fixed