Attabad Lake, Gojal, also known as Gojal Lake[4], is a lake in the Gojal Valley of northern Pakistan created in January 2010 by a landslide dam.
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.
[5] The landslide killed twenty people 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,
[6] and inundated over 12 miles (19 km) of the
Karakoram Highway.
[2]
The lake reached 13 miles (21 km) long and over 100 metres (330 ft) in
depth by the first week of June 2010 when it began flowing over the
landslide dam, completely submerging lower Shishkat and partly flooding
Gulmit.
[2] 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.
[7] By June 4 water outflow from the lake had increased to 3,700 cu ft/s (100 m
3/s).
[8]
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