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Yungay in 1907, with Huascarán in the backrgound Upper level of the Yungay cemetery and Cristo Redentor statue. In the late 1960s, Yungay's permanent population was around 4,000 [9] or 5,000, [10] which swelled greatly on market and church days when thousands of visitors arrived from the surrounding villages. [9]
The 1970 Ancash earthquake (also known as the Great Peruvian earthquake) occurred on 31 May off the coast of Peru in the Pacific Ocean at 15:23:29 local time. Combined with a resultant landslide , it is the most catastrophic natural disaster in the history of Peru .
The remnants of Yungay's town church after the landslide Main articles: 1970 Ancash earthquake and 1970 Huascarán debris avalanche In 1962, two American scientists, David Bernays and Charles Sawyer, had reported seeing a massive vertical slab of rock being undermined by a glacier on mount Huascarán Norte , which threatened to fall and cause ...
Yungay is located in the Callejón de Huaylas on Río Santa at an elevation of approximately 2,500 meters, 450 km north of Lima, the country's capital.East of the small town are the mountain ridges of snow-covered Cordillera Blanca, with Huascarán, Peru's highest mountain, no more than 15 km east of Yungay.
This list of disaster films represents over half a century of films within the genre.Disaster films are motion pictures which depict an impending or ongoing disaster as a central plot feature.
The 1962 Ranrahirca Landslide was deadly landslide that affected the Ranrahirca District, alongside the river Santa, near Huascarán, the highest mountain in Peru. It was hit by massive avalanches of snow, rocks and mud, originating on the slopes of Huascarán and triggered by earthquakes on 10 January 1962 and on 31 May 1970.
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On January 5, 1970, the 7.1 M w Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 14,621 were killed and 26,783 were injured. On May 31, 1970, the 1970 Ancash earthquake caused a landslide that buried the town of Yungay in Peru; more than 47,000 people were killed.