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GLACIER "MONTE GIOVE E"
Risk type: glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket)
Glacier list |
Statistics
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Type: |
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Country: |
Italy |
Region: |
Piemonte |
Massif/Ice Cap: |
Monte Leone |
Municipality: |
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Municipality code: |
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Location: |
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Latitude (°, cent): |
6,034 N |
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Longitude (°, cent): |
8,40256 E |
Surface (km2): |
0,12 |
Lenght (km): |
0,45 |
Width (km): |
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Min. altitude (m): |
2320 |
Max. altitude (m): |
2500 |
Orientation (°) |
360 |
Slope (°) |
24 |
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EVENT: Date
24/8/1987
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
Warm temperatures caused heavy precipitations also at high altitude. A debris flow origined from the frontal moraine, and covered 3 km reaching the alluvial cone of Vannino stream. |
Effects: |
A camping was damaged on the alluvial-cone in Formazza-Valdo. |
Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 Others |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Mortara G., Dutto F., Godone F., 1995 - Effetti degli eventi alluvionali nell'ambiente proglaciale: la sovraincisione della morena del ghiacciaio del Mulinet (Stura di Valgrande, Alpi Graie). Geogr. Fis. Dinam. Quat., 18, II serie, p. 295-304. |
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