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GLACIER "ALLALIN"
Risk type: ice avalanches

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Type:  Cirque glacier
Country:  Switzerland
Region:  Valais, Saastal
Massif/Ice Cap:  
Municipality:  Saas Almagell
Municipality code:  3905
Location:  Swiss coordinates: (639'000/100'000)
 
Latitude (°, cent):  46.04
Longitude (°, cent):  7.93
Surface (km2):  10
Lenght (km):  7
Width (km):  
Min. altitude (m):  2400
Max. altitude (m):  4190
Orientation (°)  45
Slope (°)  14

EVENT:  Date  //2000 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
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BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  31/10/1999 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  160'000 m3 ice broke off at the same place as 1965.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
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EVENT:  Date  //1980 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier length changes
Description  glacier ran over three water catchment from the Kraftwerke Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
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EVENT:  Date  30/8/1965 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  1 Mio. m3 ice fall on the consturction site of the Mattmark reservoir.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  88
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

Röthlisberger, H. and Kasser, P., 0 - The readvance of the Allalingletscher after the ice avalanche of 1965. Proc. Int. Workshop on Mechanism of Glacier Variations, 30.9-11.10.1976

EVENT:  Date  //1920 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1850 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

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EVENT:  Date  //1839 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

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EVENT:  Date  //1837 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1834 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

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EVENT:  Date  //1828 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

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EVENT:  Date  //1827 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1816 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1808 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1798 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1793 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1790 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  17/9/1772 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Glacier tongue dammed the river Saaser Vispa =>rupture of the lake.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

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EVENT:  Date  //1766 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1764 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1755 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1752 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1740 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1733 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1724 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1719 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1680 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  21/8/1633 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  Valley population had to migrate.
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1630 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1629 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1626 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark.
Effects:  Population from the Saastal had to migrate.
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

EVENT:  Date  //1589 -  Date quality:   

Type:  Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Description  Rupture of the ice-dammed lake Mattmark
Effects:  
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  

DAMAGES    

BIBLIOGRAPHY 

VAW, 2002 - Inventar von gefährlichen Gletschern in der Schweiz