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)...
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Vajont (Western Friulian: Vaiònt) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Italy's mountainous regions, leading to ecological disasters such as the 1963 Vajont Dam flood, and the 1998 Sarno and 2009 Messina mudslides. Italy has been...
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Antonio Segni (section Vajont Dam disaster)
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...
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Megatsunami (section 1963: Vajont Dam, Italy)
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)....
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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...
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Aldo Moro (section Vajont Dam disaster)
SopravvissutiVajont.org. "Vajont, Due Volte Tragedia". Narcomafie (in Italian). 9 October 2002. Retrieved 6 August 2023 – via SopravvissutiVajont.org. Un banco...
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Erto e Casso (section Vajont disaster)
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...
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Castellavazzo (section Vajont disaster)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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instability caused by changes to water levels during filling or poor surveying (Vajont, Malpasset, Testalinden Creek dams), poor maintenance, especially of outlet...
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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...
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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...
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Casso, Pordenone (section The Vajont disaster)
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...
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to widespread air and water pollution and ecological disasters like the Vajont Dam disaster and the Seveso chemical accident, until a green consciousness...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Glavatičevo (section Vajont Dam disaster)
Glavatičevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Главатичево) is a small village in Konjic Municipality, Bosnia and Herzegovina, which is a central village to a group of...
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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...
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largest warships of the Second World War. 54 3 "Mountain Tsunami" 1963 Vajont Dam disaster October 9, 1963 Landslide and consequent flood March 25, 2012 (2012-03-25)...
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another planet. Austin, Pennsylvania Dam Failure St. Francis Dam disaster Vajont Dam disaster "Johnstown, Pennsylvania, 1904". Library of Congress. World...
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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]...
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the St Francis dam failure (1928), Malpasset dam failure (1959), and the Vajont dam failure (1963), where a lack of knowledge of geology resulted in almost...
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