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Colorado Central Magazine June 2001 Page 29
avalanche disasters, by John W. Jenkins. Review by Allen Best. ColoradoHistory June 2001 - Colorado Central Magazine - No. 88 - Page 29.
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Extractions: ISBN 1-890437-44-1 FATAL AVALANCHES fascinate us in some peculiar, primordial way. And, from the first winter after the gold rush of 1858 to as recently as this past winter, Colorado's mountains have often responded to this maniacal morbidity. John W. Jenkins caters to this curiosity with a book intended for easy reading. From the mining camps to the ski mountains, he scans 120 years and a cemetery full of white death. He had a good idea, and his prose is adequate. Ample footnotes suggest exhaustive research that would make this as carefully documented as a bank loan. However, I wouldn't bet my house on his history. Several of his stories are too good to be true. His Homestake Mine story is almost certainly bogus, and his story about Buck Rogers and a lost gold treasure from Red Cliff is highly unlikely. And there are more canards yet. These stories are almost certainly tall tales rather than fact. This was "taking" research, rather than "painstaking," and as the saying goes, "no pain, no gain." For better primary documentation and perhaps better writing, I'd suggest "Historic Avalanches in the Northern Front Range and the Central and Northern Mountains of Colorado," by M. Martinelli Jr. and Charles F. Leaf.
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Article E., 14 pages. NEDIES Project. Lessons Learnt from avalanche disasters.Alessandro G. Colombo, Editor. European Commission. Joint Research Centre.
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or damage. Surprisingly, however, one of the worst avalanche disastersin history was caused by a glacier in Santa Valley, Peru.
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Translate this page Catastrophic avalanche disasters in the high-mountainous regions of the Alps almostalways result from dry new-snow avalanches with a large powder component
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Extractions: HAGEN G., HEUMADER J., Heft 135, 1998 Im Beitrag werden die theoretischen Grundlagen, die praktische Durchführung, die Anwendungsmöglichkeiten und die Grenzen der in Österreich entwickelten gasdynamischen Lawinensimulation ("Staublawinensimulation") beschrieben. Katastrophenlawinen in den Alpen sind nahezu immer trockene Neuschneelawinen mit starker Aufwirbelung, also Staublawinen, deren Schnee-Luft-Gemisch gasdynamischen Gesetzen unterliegt. In Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem Forsttechnischen Dienst für Wildbach- und Lawinenverbauung, dem Institut für Lawinen- und Wildbachforschung, Innsbruck, und der Fa. AVL - Ges. für Verbrennungskraftmaschinen und Meßtechnik m.b.H., Graz, konnte unter Verwendung der bereits vorhandenen Software "FIRE" ein EDV-Programm entwickelt werden, welches die turbulenten Strömungsvorgänge des Schnee-Luft-Gemisches von Staublawinen entlang des vorgegebenen Geländes nachvollzieht. Die Ergebnisse dieser gasdynamischen Lawinensimulation wurden bis jetzt mit den 1984 und 1988 nach Katastrophenlawinenabgängen erhobenen Daten verglichen und eine gute Übereinstimmung festgestellt. THE AUSTRIAN POWDER-AVALANCHE SIMULATION METHOD (DESCRIPTION, APPLICABILITIES AND LIMITS)
Search And Rescue Teams
at almost all large ski resorts with potential avalanche hazards as well as largerorganizations that are called upon in very large avalanche disasters or to
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Extractions: There are search and rescue teams at almost all large ski resorts with potential avalanche hazards as well as larger organizations that are called upon in very large avalanche disasters or to remote areas. Although the people trained to do search and rescue are well qualified it should be stressed that the chance for survival of an avalanche victim is dependent on time, therefore avoiding disaster and/or knowing personal saftey tips to aid in the victims location will greatly reduce the risk of death. The victim has only a 50% chance of survival if uncovered within a half hour. With small, very mobile rescue teams this time constraint is not impossible to work under. If the victim has taken the neccessary precautions to aid rescuers in locating them they stand a much greater chance of survival. An organized rescue effort that takes the least amount of time must be prepared prior to the search. This is called an avalanche rescue plan and is required reading for all employees of ski resorts. These plans are updated every season and within the season if weather conditions change drastically. The rescue plan includes information on equipment, alarm sounding, and personnel in charge. There is a rescue leader who's responsibility it is to contact medical support, air support, law enforcment groups, and government officials for handling public-relations problems. Throughout the search and rescue the leader is usually stationed to a particular post, while others members of the team are actively looking for the victim within the avalanche area.
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Gokyo Avalanche
Nepal (Reuter) Rescuers in helicopters found seven bodies buried in snow Tuesday,raising the death toll in one of Nepal's worst avalanche disasters to 49.
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Snow Advice Home The 1999 avalanche disasters in the villages of Galtür in Austriaand near Chamonix in France were the result of truly exceptional snowfalls
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Extractions: The 1999 avalanche disasters in the villages of Galtür in Austria and near Chamonix in France were the result of truly exceptional snowfalls and weather conditions. Never in living memory have there been such tragic accidents and hopefully there never will be again. But these events should heighten awareness of the dangers of the mountains. The vast majority of avalanche victims are holiday skiers or riders who have gone off-piste. And, according to the Swiss Federal Institute of Snow and Avalanche Research, almost all fatal avalanches are set off by the victims themselves. Of the 600 cases it studied in a recent report, 80 per cent were set off by off-piste or cross-country skiers. Snowboarders and hikers accounted for the other 20 per cent.
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Extractions: Avalanche: A large mass of rock debris or snow that moves rapidly down a mountain slope, sweeping and grinding everything in its path. Informative Sites: http://nsidc.org/snow/avalanche/index.html http://www.avalanche.org/# http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/avalanche/ http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/regions/northcentral/Maint/Avalanche/slab.cfm ... http://www.rmbl.org/weather/avaldef.html
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Are disasters So Cool You Just Can't Stand Them? Well, Check These Places Out! PicturesCourtesy Of National Geophysical Data Center The Colorado avalanche
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Extractions: Landslides occur along something called (are you ready?) a plane of structural weakness ! So what, you say? Well, that means that all this muck coming down the side of the mountain, heading straight for you and your dog and your little log shack, is following the path of least resistance. The plane of structural weakness ! is the term for a path, in the mountain, that is relatively free of debris and usually is between the two highest points of the mountain. Some mudflows are active for years ! Isn't that amazing? It's all part of the really super cool way that Geology works: Volcanoes and converging plates push mountains up, and mudflows and rain tear them back down, bit by tiny bit, over thousands of years, until they are flat. See, without mudflows and
Disasters And Catastrophes: Disaster Links
organization. For our purposes, though, it includes interesting descriptionsof disasters! The Cyberspace Snow and avalanche Center.
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Extractions: NASA's Web Site for Public Use of Remote Sensing Data You can see satellite pictures and movies of hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and other natural disasters at this site. DISASTERS Developed as a part of the ThinkQuest competition, this page has a REAL good chance to win! Especially if you're running on a dual ISDN, have a look at this page! (The graphics alone are worth the trip.)
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avalanche. An avalanche occurs when a mass of snow falls down a mountainside.That is areas. What to Do During an avalanche. During
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Extractions: Avalanche An avalanche occurs when a mass of snow falls down a mountainside. That is because new snow (which is not wet) accumulates on a more heavy snow layer. Since the new snow layer is not compact, it could slide down toward the base of the mountain. Avalanches could be triggered by loud noise (yells, firearm shots, etc.). Skiers, snowboarders and climbers could also cause an avalanche. There are two ways to reduce avalanche risks: by installing snowsheds or by triggering controlled avalanches. These protection fences are made of rocks, soil and other materials. They prevent avalanches to fill trails used by humans. Controlled avalanches cause the accumulated snow to fall down before it could trigger avalanches by itself. When nobody is in danger, explosives are used to produce a loud noise that causes an avalanche.
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Choose a Section. avalanche, Rock Slide and Landslide. avalanche.
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Extractions: Avalanche, Rock Slide and Landslide However, landslides can take other forms, namely rock slides and avalanches. Avalanches could be made of snow and rock debris. In both situations, avalanches usually cause a lot of damages. During a snowfall, the hard snow layer is covered with a new snow layer, less compact and heavy. This new layer is less stable than the first, and any loud sound or movement is enough to cause this layer to fall down the mountainside. That is why wilderness skiers sometimes trigger avalanches. To reduce avalanche risks, snowsheds are constructed where snow accumulates in mountains. Small avalanches are also triggered by firing shots in hazard areas. The sound produced by these shots triggers small avalanches, which prevent snow accumulation that could lead to bigger and more dangerous ones. For your own safety, you must never venture alone in the mountain during winter. It is better to look up the avalanche risks for the region. Finally, always stay in marked ski runs and, if possible, near the sides of these runs.
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Natural disasters, ALMANAC OF disasters; Forces of Nature. avalanche,Blizzard, Drought, Dust Storm. Earthquake, Fire, Flood, Freezing Rain.
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Natural Disasters: Avalanches And Blizzards
Includes games and quizzes about natural disasters. eTheme Resources on specificdisasters are included. URL http//www.avalanche.org/~aaap/myths.HTML
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Extractions: Printer-friendly version Please preview all links before sharing in class with students. Resource Information Title Natural Disasters: Avalanches and Blizzards Description These sites are about avalanches and blizzards and how they form. Also includes information about winter storms and snow. Learn about rescue dogs used in avalanches. There are photographs and videos of these natural disasters. Grade Level Performance Standards Knowledge Standards Resource Links Link ID:
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