A bedrock failure beneath a glacier high in the Himalayas on 26 August produced a rock-and-ice avalanche that registered as a magnitude 5.2 seismic event and sent debris down the Bhote Kashi River. Nepal recorded 987 deaths and 3,916 people missing; China recorded 16 deaths and 546 missing; 275 Indians were reported missing. Rescue operations saved 11,814 people in total.