New Delhi: Without the inflowing on Nepal-Tibet verge on 26 August 2026, only one question is then circulating on social media - is 26th really inauspicious? The glacier tapped in the Himalayas and many areas of Nepal situated unelevated were destroyed. Hundreds of deaths were reported on the very first day and then the number of sufferer persons and missing people increased every day.
After this, people started making lists of old major tragedies that occurred on the 26th. The truth is that any stage has no scientific connection with a disaster, but in history, on 26th, some such incidents have happened whose impact was felt by the whole world.
26 August 2026: Disaster in Nepal
As soon as a part of the glacier tapped on the Nepal-Tibet border, a inflowing of ice, stones and water came down. Bhotekoshi and Trishuli rivers flooded simultaneously. Villages, bridges, roads and hydro power projects were washed away. In many places people were not plane warned to flee, and later trash and wrenched roads made rescue increasingly difficult.
26 December 2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami
An undersea earthquake occurred near Indonesia and the tsunami that followed destroyed the coasts of 14 countries including India. Lakhs of people were rendered homeless.
26 January 2001: Gujarat earthquake
Gujarat was shaken on the Republic Day. That earthquake in Bhuj had reduced thousands of buildings to trash within a few seconds and taken thousands of lives.
26 April 1986: Chernobyl Accident
There was an explosion in reactor number-4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Plant of the Soviet Union. The radiation that spread without this is still considered the world's biggest nuclear tragedy.
So is the 26th really unlucky?
Looking at the list, it certainly seems like a coincidence, but nothing increasingly than a coincidence. There are no dates overdue floods, earthquakes or tsunamis, but scientific reasons like tectonic plates, weather, melting of glaciers. Plane in the Nepal tragedy, the focus of scientists is on the breaking of glaciers and the rapidly waffly Himalayas. Therefore, instead of calling 26th unlucky, it is largest that we understand why these changes are taking place in the mountains.
