# Nepal-Tibet disaster exposes need for warning systems to go ‘beyond rain’: expert

https://mins.news/en/video/38102

- CNA, 2026-08-31 02:52 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia0lS8Vanjs

> The deadly disaster in Nepal and Tibet has revealed shortcomings in early-warning systems for glacier-related hazards, says Soniya Rijal of the University of Sydney. She argues that alerts must look beyond rainfall and that informal community networks can help warn people, while known risks did not necessarily make the disaster’s scale foreseeable.

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