1970 Huascarán debris avalanche
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1970-huascar-n-debris-avalanche-164-4882090
title:
1970 Huascarán debris avalanche
text:
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. It is the deadliest avalanche or glacier-related disaster in history, surpassing the death toll from the previous deadliest avalanche disaster, the avalanches of White Friday on the Italian front of World War I and the third or fourth most deadly landslide-related disas
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description:
Deadliest avalanche in the history in Peru
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970_Huascar%C3%A1n_debris_avalanche
date created:
2020-08-28T04:06:50Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T20:04:35Z
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