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Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering
Published in: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering 6/2013

01-11-2013 | Editorial

The 1963 Vajont Landslide: 50th Anniversary

Authors: Giovanni Barla, Paolo Paronuzzi

Published in: Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering | Issue 6/2013

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This editorial is intended to bring to our minds the 50th Anniversary of the Vajont Landslide occurred on 9 October 1963 at 10.39 pm in Italy, in the Dolomites of Friuli, on the borders of the Veneto Region and about 100 km north of Venice. A mass of approximately 270–300 million m3 of rock and debris collapsed into the reservoir generating a wave that over-topped the 261.6 m high double curved arch dam built across a V-shaped gorge (Fig. 1). The flood wave dropped into the Piave Valley destroying the town of Longarone and other villages nearby. More than 2,000 people (the real number is not known) were killed. …
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Literature
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Title
The 1963 Vajont Landslide: 50th Anniversary
Authors
Giovanni Barla
Paolo Paronuzzi
Publication date
01-11-2013
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Rock Mechanics and Rock Engineering / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0723-2632
Electronic ISSN: 1434-453X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00603-013-0483-7

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