The Phantom Quake: How Falling Mountains Fool the World’s Seismographs: When devastating flash floods tore through Nepal’s Trishuli and Bhote Koshi basins on 26 August 2026, reaching the Indian plains, initial reports blamed an earthquake-triggered GLOF. Banta dissects the seismic waveform to prove how the catastrophic vertical fall of billions of tons of rock and ice generated ground shocks that masqueraded as an earthquake, shattering one of the Himalayas’ most persistent disaster myths.