The Vajont Dam or Vaiont Dam is a disused hydro-electric dam in northern Italy. It is one of the tallest dams in the world, with a height of 262 m (860 ft)...

was built to rehome the people evacuated from Erto e Casso after the Vajont Dam disaster of 1963. In addition to the Italian language, the Friulian dialects...

the height of the municipality of Longarone, almost directly below the Vajont dam, in the province of Belluno. On the right side of the valley are the villages...

outcome of one of the most tragic events in Italian republican history, the Vajont Dam disaster. On 9 October 1963, a few weeks before his oath as prime minister...

during filling or poor surveying (Malpasset Dam). Sliding of a mountain into the reservoir (Vajont Dam – not a dam failure, but caused nearly the entire volume...

landslide which caused an initial wave of 524 metres (1,719 ft)), and the Vajont Dam landslide (caused by human activity destabilizing sides of valley). Prehistoric...

le Mérite medal for this achievement. The village was destroyed in the Vajont Dam disaster on October 9, 1963, when a landslide from Monte Toc forced 270 million...

one of the most tragic events in Italian republican history, namely the Vajont Dam disaster. On 9 October 1963, a landslide occurred on Monte Toc, in the...

Vajont (Italian: Vajont - La diga del disonore) is a 2001 Italian disaster film directed by Renzo Martinelli. It is a dramatization of the Vajont Dam...

Northern Italy. Its base is located next to the reservoir created by the Vajont Dam, which was built in 1960. In Friulian, the mountain's name is the abbreviation...

station failures Vajont Dam St. Francis Dam French Ministry for Sustainable Development, DGPR/SRT/BARPI (April 2009). "Burst of a Dam, 2 December 1959...

homeless. The creation of a dam in a geologically inappropriate location may cause disasters such as 1963 disaster at Vajont Dam in Italy, where almost 2...

Kerrada Dam Oued Kramis Dam Boukerdine Dam Bouroumi Dam Ladrat Dam Oued Isser's Dam Hamiz Dam Calueque Dam Cambambe Dam Capanda Dam Gove Dam Lauca Dam Lomaum...

Dixence Dam in Switzerland The Inguri Dam in Georgia The Vajont Dam in Italy The Tehri Dam in India The Mica Dam in Canada The Sayano Shushenskaya Dam in Russia...

famously include the St Francis dam failure (1928), Malpasset dam failure (1959), and the Vajont dam failure (1963), where a lack of knowledge of geology resulted...

episodes 1998 Residue dam wall collapse of the Aznalcollar mine 2000 Baia Mare cyanide spill 2010 Ajka alumina plant accident Vajont Dam F. Luino and J. V...

with large dams on Neretva, one HE power-plants with major dam on the Neretva tributary Rama, and two HE power-plants with one major dam on the Trebišnjica...

designers and manufacturers of dams in the era. He was the designer of 15 major dams, amongst them the Vajont Dam, the highest dam in the world until the early...

and Casso were the two villages in the Vajont (/vaˈjɔnt/) valley, above the artificial lake, before the Vajont Dam disaster on 9 October 1963. The landslide...

of 524 m (1,719 ft). The only other recent megatsunamis are the 1963 Vajont Dam megatsunami, which had an initial height of 250 m (820 ft), the 1980 Spirit...

– via Newspapers.com. "Expecting Disaster: The 1963 Landslide of the Vajont Dam". Environment & Society Portal. 30 January 2012. "50 YEARS SINCE THE SKOPJE...

two months before, at the Vajont Dam in Italy, a massive landslide into the reservoir created a seiche, which overtopped the dam, thereby flooding the valley...

city was destroyed. 1963 – Vajont dam disaster – The Vajont dam flood in Italy was caused by a mountain sliding in the dam and causing a flood wave that...

Tsunamis in lakes Villa Epecuén – Tourist village in Argentina Vajont Dam, Disused gravity arch dam in Italy, overtopped by a seiche in 1963 Darwin, G. H. (1898)...

face one of the most tragic events in Italian republican history, the Vajont Dam disaster. On 9 October 1963, a landslide occurred on Monte Toc, in the...

face one of the most tragic events in Italian republican history, the Vajont Dam disaster. On 9 October 1963, a landslide occurred on Monte Toc, in the...

poor surveying (Vajont, Malpasset, Testalinden Creek dams), poor maintenance, especially of outlet pipes (Lawn Lake Dam, Val di Stava Dam collapse), extreme...

widespread air and water pollution and ecological disasters like the Vajont Dam disaster and the Seveso chemical accident, until a green consciousness...

of Belluno-Feltre, different from the one of Erto. Situated upon the Vajont Dam, Casso was one of the villages involved in the disaster of October 9,...

mountainous regions, leading to ecological disasters such as the 1963 Vajont Dam flood, and the 1998 Sarno and 2009 Messina mudslides. Italy has been a...