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GLACIER "FLIRSCHER FERNER"
Risk type: ice avalanches
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Type: |
Cirque glacier |
Country: |
Austria |
Region: |
Tyrol |
Massif/Ice Cap: |
Verwall mountains |
Municipality: |
Flirsch |
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Location: |
East of the mountain Hoher Riffler (3168 m) above the Stanzer valley |
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Latitude (°, cent): |
47,12 N |
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Longitude (°, cent): |
10,38 E |
Surface (km2): |
0,344 |
Lenght (km): |
1 |
Width (km): |
0,6 |
Min. altitude (m): |
2630 |
Max. altitude (m): |
3040 |
Orientation (°) |
120 |
Slope (°) |
16 |
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EVENT: Date
9/2/1982
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Type: |
Ice avalanches |
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Description |
500.000 m³ of ice came down in February 1982 and swaped over a rocky step where the smaller ice avalanches are used to stop. The ice front where the ice broke down had a length of 200 meters and was 80 meters high. |
Effects: |
350 m³ of wood has been destroyed by the ice and air pressure. Moreover a building site of the road authority and some machines have been destroyed. The avalanche stoped only a few meters in front of a railway track which was damaged slightly. |
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0 |
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Injuried (#) |
0 |
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BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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M.Legland, 1998 - témoignage recueilli en mai 1998 |
Mougin, M.P, 1922 - Avalanches, débâcles et érosions glaciaires Etudes glaciologiques, tome V, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, p.169 |
no name, 1982 - Vor dem Gleis stoppte Gletscherlawine Tiroler Tageszeitung vom 15.2.1982, page 3 |
Vivian, R., 1975 - Les glaciers des Alpes occidentales Thèse d'état, Imprimerie Allier, Grenoble, p.349 |
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