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Lori Dengler | Dams and earthquakes: Water hazards don’t just come from tsunamis
Dams have been a part of human history for a very long time, dating back to the earliest times of agrarian societies. The ...
How did Europe’s tallest dam become one of history’s worst engineering disasters? This documentary investigates the Vajont Dam tragedy of 1963, where a landslide created a wave that killed nearly ...
Pope Francis looks at photos of the aftermath of a massive landslide in October 1963 that killed 1,910 people in northern Italy during an audience with pilgrims from the Diocese of Belluno-Feltre and ...
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — In a wide-ranging interview, National Taiwan University civil engineering professor Colin Stark discussed the risks and remediation efforts surrounding landslide dams in Hualien ...
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc into the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, one of the the higher dams in the world. The landslide ...
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