Sarez Lake

Sarez Lake is a lake in Pamir, Tajikistan. Length about 75 km, depth few hundred meters, water surface elevation about 3000 m over sea level. The mountains around come up more than 2000 m over the lake level.

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Lake - Pamir - Tajikistan

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The lake formed in 1911, after a great earthquake, when the Murghab River was blocked by falling rocks. Scientists believe that the natural 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.

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Earthquake - Murghab River - Dam - Usoi Dam - Seismicity

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