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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 ...

2020年5月30日 — On 31 May 1970 an earthquake struck in Peru, triggering a landslide and leading to the deaths of 70000 ... Yungay. A statue of Christ in the ...

Along its path, the avalanche overrode a hill in the downstream area and completely destroyed the city of Yungay, claiming about 18000 lives. Year: 2016. From ...

Ranrahirca was a village in Peru, alongside the river Santa, near Huascarán, the highest mountain in Peru. It was hit by massive avalanches of snow, ...

The (old) city of Yungay (Figure 5a) that had around 17,000 inhabitants was almost totally covered by that debris avalanche (Figure 5b) and only 400 people ...

由 G PLAFKER 著作 · 1978 · 被引用 352 次 — The 1962 avalanche, with an approximate volume of 13 × 106 m3 killed about 4000 people, mostly in the city of Ranrahirca. Prior to 1962, there were no major ...

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 ...

2009年11月13日 — On January 10, 1962, an avalanche on the slopes of an extinct volcano kills more than 4,000 people in Peru. Nine towns and seven smaller ...

An avalanche on Mt. Huascaran buried 18,000 of the 25,000 residents of Yungay and 10,000 of the 35,000 residents of Huras. The avalanche started as a sliding ...