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GLACIER "SCERSCEN INFER."
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Glacier list |
Statistics
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| Type: |
Ice sheet |
| Country: |
Italy |
| Region: |
Lombardia |
| Massif/Ice Cap: |
Bernina |
| Municipality: |
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| Municipality code: |
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| Location: |
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| Latitude (°, cent): |
6.017 N |
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| Longitude (°, cent): |
9.85 E |
| Surface (km2): |
6.16 |
| Lenght (km): |
4 |
| Width (km): |
1.8 |
| Min. altitude (m): |
2520 |
| Max. altitude (m): |
3400 |
| Orientation (°) |
90 |
| Slope (°) |
12 |
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EVENT: Date
10/8/1927
- Date quality: |
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
Emptying of the marginal lake (Seracchi Lake - also called Orsi lake - 500.000 m3), during the night between 9 and 10 August. The velocity of the water flow was about 20 km/h, and Sondrio was reached at the sunrise. Water outburst through a leak at the base of ice wall. The maximum flood was estimated about 200 m3/s during half an hour. |
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Effects: |
The flood destroyed Alpe Campascio and seven bridges. The iron-dam of Lanzada (Società Elettrica Lombarda), 360 quintal weight, was swept away through 300 m; a phone-call of the warden allowed to save another dam 10 km far. Alpe Campascio was damaged too.
The flood of Mallero river reached 7 m somewhere in the valley, destroying also a mill in Tornadri village (near Lanzada), and two lathe in Valbrutta. The street between Chiesa and Lanzada was swept away. All the fishes living in Mallero river died.
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| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
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DAMAGES |
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Buildings |
Description: |
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Others |
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Roads |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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, - "Il Popolo valtellinese" journal, 20 August 1927 |
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Corti A., 1929 - Nel gruppo del Bernina. Il sottogruppo Glauschaint-Sella. Momenti storia della Vedretta di Scerscen Rivista Club Alpino It. N. 48, p. 75-107. |
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Fantoli A., 1928 - I laghi glaciali e gli impianti alpini. L'energia elettrica, anno 6, vol. 5 (2), p. 230. |
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Nangeroni G., 1929 - Il glacialismo attuale nella media Valtellina. I ghiacciai della Valle Lanterna. Boll. Comitato Glac. It., serie I, n. 9, p. 174-176. |
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Nangeroni G., 1930 - I laghi della Val Malenco. Natura, XXI, 51 p. |
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Nangeroni G., - Svuotamento improvviso di un lago al ghiacciaio di Scerscen. L'ambiente naturale e umano della provincia di Sondrio, p. 65. |
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EVENT: Date
7/8/1924
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| Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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| Description |
At the beginning of XX century, a small lake (Lago dei Seracchi) formed at the right side of the tongue, and increased in the next years. Water was dammed by the ice in a side.
The lake partially outbursted in the night between 6 and 7 August. |
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Effects: |
The flood was noticed by inhabitants of the valley during the night, but it didn't cause damages. |
| Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
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DAMAGES |
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| Type: |
None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Corti A., 1929 - Nel gruppo del Bernina - Momenti di storia della Vedretta di Scerscen. Rivista Club Alpino It., vol. XLVIII, p. 100-102. |
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