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Glacial Sprint by Catherine Corne. Most glaciers creep along at a pace that is, well, glacial, but one in northern Pakistan

breaks into a gallop with astounding speed and regularity. Kordupin glacier surges every two

decades, moving roughly 1,500 times its normal pace. This sends ice tumbling into a nearby river, damming it to create a

temporary lake that can suddenly inundate nearby villages. Now scientists in Europe have used

new high-resolution satellite data to study Kurtapan before and during its most recent surge

in 2017, revealing how the event developed on a near daily basis

in unprecedented detail. The observations are critical to monitoring the glacier's hazards

and could help to predict when flooding might occur next. About 1% of the world's glaciers

exhibit such sudden and large bursts of speed.

Jacob Steiner, a geoscientist at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, who led the study, said

it's not 100% clear why some glaciers surge and others don't.

Some scientists think water permeates a glacier's base and acts as a lubricant to promote

sliding.

Sediments between a glacier in the ground may also facilitate slippage.

Steiner and his team analyzed new satellite images of Kirtipan that revealed features as small

as three meters across. As snow accumulated on the high elevation end of the 41 kilometer

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