In October 1963, a massive landslide crashed into the reservoir behind Italy’s Vajont Dam, triggering a catastrophic mega-tsunami. A towering wave surged over the dam and tore through the narrow ...
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The wave that erased a town: The terrifying story of one of the world’s tallest dams, Vajont Dam
On October 9, 1963, a colossal engineering marvel became a monument to human overconfidence. High in the Italian Alps, the Vajont Dam- then the world’s tallest- withstood the unthinkable: a massive ...
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc into the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, one of the the higher dams in the world. The landslide ...
At 10:39 PM of October 9, 1963, a landslide of 250 million cubic meters of land is detached from Mount Toc and falls into the artificial reservoir created by the Vajont dam, located in the northern ...
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