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GLACIER "MIAGE"
Risk type: glacier flood and ice avalanches
Glacier list |
Statistics
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Type: |
Valley glacier |
Country: |
Italy |
Region: |
Aosta Valley |
Massif/Ice Cap: |
Monte Bianco |
Municipality: |
Courmayeur |
Municipality code: |
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Location: |
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Latitude (°, cent): |
45,82 N |
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Longitude (°, cent): |
6,85 E |
Surface (km2): |
13,021 |
Lenght (km): |
10,35 |
Width (km): |
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Min. altitude (m): |
1720 |
Max. altitude (m): |
4810 |
Orientation (°) |
180 |
Slope (°) |
16 |
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EVENT: Date
9/8/1996
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
In the afternoon an ice block fell into the Miage marginal lake. |
Effects: |
The serac-fall caused a wave in the lake, that struck a group of tourists on the shore. |
Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
11 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Armando E., Mercalli M, Castellano C., 1997 - I ghiacciai delle Alpi occidentali nel 1995 e 1996: riduzione modesta. Nimbus 15-16, Società Meteorologica Subalpina, p. 33-47. |
Cerutti A. V., 1997 - Eventi eccezionali sui ghiacciai del Monte Bianco. Rivista Geogr. Ital., 104, p. 99-111. |
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EVENT: Date
/5/1991
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Rock fall on glacier surface |
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Description |
At the end of May, or at the beginning of June, a great rock-slide (about 300.000 m3) from the left orographic slope fell on the glacier. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Deline P., - Personal communication. |
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EVENT: Date
9/8/1990
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
Emptying of the proglacial lake during the night. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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, - Truchet (personal communication) |
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EVENT: Date
8/7/1986
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
Emptying of the proglacial lake. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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, - Truchet (personal communication) |
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EVENT: Date
//1972
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
Avalanche-cone formed at the feet of gullies, caused by the fall of debris from medial moraine to the external side of the lateral one. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Lesca C., 1972 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica Italiana 1972. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 20, p. 132-134 |
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EVENT: Date
//1964
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
During the summer three small lake, formed during the spring into inter-morainic basins, dried up. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1964 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1964. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 14 (1), p. 108-109 |
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EVENT: Date
/8/1963
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
Slow emptying of the proglacial lake since spring to summer. At the middle of August the lake was completely empty. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1963 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1963. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 13 (1), p. 35-36 |
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EVENT: Date
//1962
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
Water level of the proglacial lake decreased a lot in the late summer, and the lake appeared subdivided in several small basins. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1962 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1962. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 12 (1), p. 68-69 |
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EVENT: Date
//1961
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
The proglacial lake slowly emptied during the autumn. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1962 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1961. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 11 (1), p. 91 |
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EVENT: Date
/6/1956
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
The proglacial lake, filled at the beginning of June, emptied in some days at the end of the same month. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1959 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1956. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 8, p. 185-186 |
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EVENT: Date
20/7/1955
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
The proglacial lake emptied in the period 20-22 July. Slowly in a first moment, than quicklier. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1956 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1955. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 7, p. 120-124 |
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EVENT: Date
10/8/1950
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
180.000 m3 of water outburst from proglacial lake in 3 days, from 10th to 12nd August. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Lesca C., 1956 - Osservazioni sul lago del ghiacciaio Miage. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie II, n. 7, p. 29-55 |
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EVENT: Date
//1931
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
Heterogeneous material at the edge of the glacier, because of the fall of debris from medial morain to the external side of the morain. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1932 - Relazione sulla Campagna Glaciologica 1931. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie I, n. 12, p. 275-276 |
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EVENT: Date
/8/1930
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Glacier flood (contain both lakes and water pocket) |
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Description |
The proglacial lake emptied slowly during the summer. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Capello C. F., 1940 - I laghi glaciali del Miage L'Universo. N.21 (10), p.685-705 |
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EVENT: Date
//1918
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
Desultory fall of big rocks from the glacier surface. |
Effects: |
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Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 None |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Sacco F., 1918 - I ghiacciai italiani del gruppo del Monte Bianco. Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie I, n. 3, p. 21-102 |
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EVENT: Date
//1820
- Date quality: |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
Debris fall from medial morain to the external side of the lateral one. |
Effects: |
Destruction of the forest. |
Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 Trees |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Monterin U., 1936 - Il clima delle Alpi ha mutato in epoca storica? Boll. Comitato Glac. It. Serie I, n.16, p. 57-107 |
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EVENT: Date
//
- Date quality:1991 e precedenti |
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
Debris fall from medial moraine to the external side of the lateral one. The material covered in few seconds 120 m, and 80 m in difference of altitude. |
Effects: |
Road damaged. |
Deaths(#) |
0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
Note |
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DAMAGES |
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Type: |
 Roads |
Description: |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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Mortara G. & Sorzana P.F., 1987 - Situazioni di rischio idrogeologico connesse all'espansione recente del ghiacciaiodel Miage ed alla instabilità dei versanti in alta Val Veny. Rev. Valdotaine Hist. Naturelle. N.41, p.111-118 |
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