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- Title: Rezoning after installing avalanche mitigation measures: case study of the Vallascia avalanche in Airolo, Switzerland
- Date: 2018-10-07
- Authors: Stefan Margreth
- Description: The catastrophic Vallascia avalanche struck the village of Airolo in the southern Swiss Alps on 12 February 1951. The accident was one of the most sev...
- Object ID: ISSW2018_O02.2.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche disaster, mitigation measures, hazard map, risk management.
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- Title: The Avalanche Catasthophe of El Teniente-Chile: August 8 of 1944
- Date: 2002
- Authors: Jose Vergara, Maria C. Baros
- Description: The avalanche of El Teniente-Chile (~34°S) August 8 of 1944, was the most serious avalanche accident in Chile of the last 100 years. On the night o...
- Object ID: issw-2002-225-227.pdf
- Keywords: chile, avalanches, andes mountains, avalanche disaster, historical snow records
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- Title: The Avalanche Winter 1999 in Switzerland - An Overview
- Date: 2000
- Authors: Christian Wilhelm, Thomas Wiesinger, Michael Brundl, Walter Ammann
- Description: February 1999 will be known in Swiss natural disaster history for its record quantities of snow, for more than 1300 harmful avalanches, 17 deaths, cut...
- Object ID: issw-2000-487-494.pdf
- Keywords: avalanche disaster, avalanche catastrophy, avalanche damages, insurance, integral risk management, avalanche warning, hazard mapping, paravalanche constructions
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