Sarez Lake
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Sarez Lake (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell)Template:Efn is a lake in Rushon District of Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. Its length is about Script error: No such module "convert"., its depth about a few hundred meters, its water surface elevation about Script error: No such module "convert". above sea level, and volume of water over Script error: No such module "convert".. The mountains around it rise over Script error: No such module "convert". above the lake level.
The lake formed in 1911, after a great earthquake, when the Murghab River was blocked by a big landslide. Scientists believe that the landslide dam formed by the earthquake, known as the Usoi Dam, is unstable given local seismicity, and that the terrain below the lake is in danger of catastrophic flood if the dam were to fail during a future earthquake.[1] The Usoi Dam wall survived a localised 7.2 magnitude earthquake, the 2015 Tajikistan earthquake, on the 7th December 2015 with no visible signs of deterioration.
Shadau Lake is a small water body southwest of the Usoi Dam and west of Sarez Lake.[2]
Formation
The formation of Sarez Lake is described in the book by Middleton and Thomas:[3] Template:Quote
Notes
References
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- ↑ Bolt, B.A., W.L. Horn, G.A. Macdonald and R.F. Scott, (1975) Geological hazards: earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, avalanches, landslides, floods Springer-Verlag, New York, Template:ISBN
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- ↑ Robert Middleton and Huw Thomas, Tajikistan and the High Pamirs, Odyssey, 2008, Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN
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