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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">EGUsphere</journal-id>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/egusphere-2026-5462</article-id>
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<article-title>Brief communication: NISAR pixel offsets measure but do not statistically resolve pre-failure motion at the 26 August 2026 Bhote Koshi ice&amp;ndash;rock avalanche, Nepal</article-title>
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<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Meena</surname>
<given-names>Sansar Raj</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6175-6491</ext-link>
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<addr-line>Geophysics Department, SpatioAI Lab, National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics – OGS, Sgonico, Trieste, Italy</addr-line>
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<day>24</day>
<month>09</month>
<year>2026</year>
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<volume>2026</volume>
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<lpage>11</lpage>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Sansar Raj Meena</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
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<p>We analyse five NASA&amp;ndash;ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) pixel-offset pairs spanning the 26 August 2026 Bhote Koshi ice&amp;ndash;rock avalanche, Nepal. The last pre-event pair estimates 0.96 m median displacement over 24 days, with its mean vector 18&amp;deg; from the topographic fall line. No pre-event interval exceeds the 95th percentile of spatial comparison distributions for displacement or directional coherence. We report rankings rather than detections. The co-event field lacks directional organisation in both processing chains. Available interval averages do not establish precursory acceleration and cannot isolate motion during the final week before failure.</p>
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