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)...

Vajont (Western Friulian: Vaiònt) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern...

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...

stream has carved a narrow gorge over time, known as Vajont valley or Valle del Vajont. The term vajont or in dialect, Vajo, appears in documents from 1300...

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...

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

places fifty years after the Vajont tragedy. Vol. 1. J-Reading. pp. 51–62. ISSN 2281-5694. Zito, Martina (2016-10-06). "The Vajont disaster and the strength...

tragedia del Vajont". Rai Scuola (in Italian). 31 January 2012. Archived from the original on 9 June 2020. Retrieved 6 August 2023. "Vajont". Mattolinimusic...

landslide which caused an initial wave of 524 metres (1,719 ft)), and the 1963 Vajont Dam landslide (caused by human activity destabilizing sides of valley)....

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...

in Trentino, the family returned to Erto, the village of origin in the Vajont valley, at that time part of the province of Udine and then, in 1968, passed...

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 1960s. In 1963, a major...

geologically inappropriate location may cause disasters such as 1963 disaster at Vajont Dam in Italy, where almost 2,000 people died. The Malpasset Dam failure...

when a massive landslide from Monte Toc entered the reservoir behind the Vajont Dam in Italy. The resulting wave surged over the 262-metre (860 ft)-high...

people homeless. About 80% of the city was destroyed. 1963 – Vajont dam disaster – The Vajont dam flood in Italy was caused by a mountain sliding in the...

instability caused by changes to water levels during filling or poor surveying (Vajont, Malpasset, Testalinden Creek dams), poor maintenance, especially of outlet...

built under the Salta mountain, in front of the Toc mountain, upon the Vajont river valley. Linked with a street to the National Road 251, it is 3 km...

of the Vajont Dam triggered a landslide. It was 270 million cubic metres (9.5×109 cu ft) of rock, forest and earth that slid into the Vajont Dam at 110...

Islands 2004 1,985 Pakistan floods, monsoon flooding Pakistan 2010 1,921 Vajont Dam landslide and flood Italy 1963 1,834[citation needed] 1992 Pakistan...

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

Germany 318 Storm surge 1962 1962 Vallés floods Spain 700 Heavy rain 1963 Vajont disaster Italy 1,917 a landslide caused a seiche wave and a megatsunami...

Best Supporting Actor Libero De Rienzo – Santa Maradona Leo Gullotta – Vajont Silvio Orlando – Light of My Eyes Best Supporting Actress Stefania Sandrelli...

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

one. The Grande 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...

Town Is Quiet (2000) Un giudice di rispetto (2000) Teste di cocco (2000) Vajont (2001) Apri gli occhi e... sogna (2002) Joy – scherzi di gioia (2002) The...

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...

and Sardinia through Corsica (1967). In 1963, Enel was involved in the Vajont Dam disaster. On 9 October 1963, a huge landslide of 260 million cubic metres...

withstand a reservoir with up to 150 million cubic meters of water when the Vajont dam was planned. Rüb, Matthias; Rom (2023-10-09). "Longarone versank vor...

to 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...

200-metre (660 ft) tall flood wave in 1963 that was caused by a landslide at Vajont Dam. There are numerous giant sequoia in parks and reserves.[citation needed]...