Large Landslide in British Columbia, Canada

On August 6, a melting glacier in British Columbia, Canada, was reported to have triggered a massive muddy landslide at 5:30 a.m. Later reports, still somewhat confusing, say that it was actually the Capricorn glacier itself that gave way. The area affected is about 150 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia.  This is an area of unstable volcanic rocks prone to landslides.  The estimated volume of the slide is estimated to be 40 million cubic meters, and is the second largest slide in Canadian history, the largest being the Hope slide of 1965 that had a volume of 46-million cubic meters.  The new slide is being referred to as the Mount Meager slide.  The slide stopped in the area where Megher Creek intersects the Lillooet River, and temporarily damed the Lillooet.  A temporary lake was formed containing 1.5 - 3 million cubic meters of water, but breached through the dam early in the morning of August 7 (3:00 a.m.)  It cut a breach between 25-50 meters wide (contrast this to the on-going drama at Attabad in Pakistan). Further information is here, as well as more photos. The photo attached was taken by "Bonny Makarewicz, Special to the [Vancouver] Sun", and can be found in the reference cited.