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GLACIER "GIROSE"
Risk type: ice avalanches

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Type:  Valley glacier
Country:  France
Region:  Hautes Alpes
Massif/Ice Cap:  Ecrins
Municipality:  
Municipality code:  
Location:  Glacier localized near the « Râteau » , under the « pic de la Grave » (massif of Meije), overlooking the valley of the "Romanche"
 
Latitude (°, cent):  45 N
Longitude (°, cent):  6,17 E
Surface (km2):  5,6
Lenght (km):  2,7
Width (km):  
Min. altitude (m):  2550
Max. altitude (m):  3660
Orientation (°)  
Slope (°)  22

EVENT:  Date  7/1/1994 -  Date quality:   
Type:  Ice avalanches
Description  The inhabitants of the hamlet called " l'Hospice de l'Hoche" have been wake up at 05h20 by a huge noise. This phenomenon has been listed like an avalanche. The limits reported on a map show that the starting area of the avalanche is the snout of the Girose glacier. It seems probably that an ice fall is the cause for the disconnecting of anavalanche
Effects:  no damages listed
Deaths(#)  0
Injuried (#)  0
Note  The information about this phenomenon extremely reduced, the source is reliable, but the recital doesn’t contain details about the ice’s volume released, neither the breaking mechanism

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