{"id":156875,"date":"2026-09-01T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156875"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:00:13","slug":"china-nepal-floods-first-research-shows-that-no-one-could-have-outrun-debris-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156875","title":{"rendered":"China-Nepal floods: first research shows that no one could have outrun debris flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNot even the world\u2019s fastest sprinters could have outrun the devastating floodwaters that struck a border crossing between China and Nepal last week, according to one of the first peer-reviewed assessments of the disaster.<br \/>\nResearchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) calculated that the surface velocity of the debris flow was 19 metres per second (62 feet per second) when it struck the checkpoint at Gyirong Port in Tibet.<br \/>\nThis is almost twice Usain Bolt\u2019s average speed when he set the&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3366020\/china-nepal-floods-first-research-shows-no-one-could-have-outrun-debris-flow?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostNot even the world\u2019s fastest sprinters could have outrun the devastating floodwaters that struck a border crossing between China and Nepal last week, according&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156875"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}