Sarez Lake
Sarez Lake is a lake in Rushon District of Gorno-Badakhshan province, Tajikistan. Length about, depth few hundred meters, water surface elevation about above sea level and volume of water is more than. The mountains around rise more than above the lake level.
The lake formed in 1911, after a great earthquake, when the Murghab River was blocked by a big landslide. Scientists believe that the landslide dam formed by the earthquake, known as the Usoi Dam, is unstable given local seismicity, and that the terrain below the lake is in danger of catastrophic flood if the dam were to fail during a future earthquake.
Shadau Lake is a small water body southwest of the Usoi Dam and west of Sarez Lake.Formation
The formation of Sarez Lake is described in the book by Middleton and Thomas:
