Abstract

Glacial avalanche hazard poses threat to humanlives and damage settlements / infrastructures in alpine glaciersmountainous regions. A gigantic ice plus rock avalanchedestroyed Gyari military camp in Siachen sector on April 2012and buried 139 personals. The study focuses on geospatialanalysis and simulation of Shishper glacial avalanche of Hunzabasin. To simulate the potential glacial avalanche hazard toHassan Abad settlements, an empirical process based GlacierAvalanche Model; Rapid Access Mass Movement Simulation(RAMMS) is utilized. The model encompasses avalancherelease area and height for the execution of simulation. Themodel output of Shishper glacial avalanche resulted; a maxpressure of 450 Kpa, max velocity of 40 m/s, and the max flowheight of 80m, while the resulted surge extent output was 2500m.The potential hazardous Shishper glacial avalanche remains acontinuous hazard to Hassan Abad of Hunza valley includingKarakoram Highway and Frontier Works Organization (FWO)camp. The study has resulted in identifying the Upper IndusBain (UIB) being more prone to glacial avalanche hazardsbecause of host factors in general and the anthropogenic factorin particular.