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The 1970 Huascarán Debris Avalanche occurred on May 31 1970, when a debris avalanche and mudflow triggered by the Ancash earthquake destroyed the Peruvian town of Yungay and ten nearby villages, leaving up to 30,000 people dead. [1]
The northern wall of Mount Huascarán was destabilized, causing a rock, ice and snow avalanche and burying the towns of Yungay and Ranrahirca. The avalanche started as a sliding mass of glacial ice and rock about 910 metres (2,990 ft) wide and 1.6 km (1 mile) long.
On 31 May 1970, the Ancash earthquake caused a substantial part of the north side of a mountain, Nevado Huascarán, to collapse and an unstable mass of glacial ice about 800 meters across at the top of Nevado Huascarán to fall. This caused a debris avalanche, burying the town of Yungay and killing 20,000 people (400 survived). [6]
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. Over two thousand people from the village perished in the 1962 avalanche, along with the inhabitants of seven nearby settlements. [1] In total about 3,500 died in the disaster. [2]
Huascarán avalanche; triggered by the 1970 Ancash earthquake [1] Peru: 1970: 2 2,000−10,000: White Friday (1916) [2] Italy: 1916: 3 4,000: Huascarán avalanche [1] Peru: 1962: 4 310: 2015 Afghanistan avalanches: Afghanistan: 2015: 5 265: Winter of Terror; series of 649 avalanches: Austria-Switzerland-Italy: 1951: 6 201 (56 confirmed, 145 ...
The body of an American mountaineer has been discovered by a pair of fellow US climbers 22 years after he went missing following an avalanche in the Peruvian Andes.
On 31 May 1970, the Ancash earthquake caused a substantial part of the north side of a mountain, Nevado Huascarán, to collapse and an unstable mass of glacial ice about 800 meters across at the top of Nevado Huascarán to fall. This caused a debris avalanche, burying the town of Yungay and killing 20,000 people (400 survived). [11]
1970 Huascarán debris avalanche; H. Vilém Heckel This page was last edited on 6 August 2024, at 17:22 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...