The Galtür Avalanche Catastrophy

A registered nurse for more than 20 years, Aurora Catral worked her way up at

1909- Sunday, october 3rd the shaft exploded, 10 men doing maintenance in the mine were killed. Roof fires were ignited from the embers of the explosion. The Cle elum fire department helped out Roslyn 's with the fires.

“The escarpments above camp were draped with hanging glacier, from which calved immense ice avalanches that thundered down… The Khumbu Icefall spilled through a narrow gap in a chaos of frozen shards. The amphitheater opened to the southwest, so it was flooded with sunlight; on clear afternoons when there was no wind,” (Krakauer 63).

The sound thundered through my ears. The ground shook beneath my feet and it felt like I was floating on it. Then another flash like lightning and that ground-shaking, deafening noise again” As you can probably tell, this is where the village is being bombed.

Moving on up the trail there is evidence of avalanches and the Limber pines are all wiped out. Some are bent over and still alive, because their roots are attached. Others are a splintered mess from the shock wave produced by an avalanche. This is an unbelievable force that can generate an air blast up to 200 miles per hour. Everything in its path gets wiped out and debris like trees and rock are carried for great distances. Standing in one of these avalanche paths in winter would mean sudden death with no

13,000 years ago Glacier Peak erupted multiple times sending tephra (rocks and other particles) into the air. It’s dome collapsed and large lahars (mudflow) were produced.

On January 12, 1888, the weather in the west was mild, compared to previous weeks. Little did the people know that a massive cold front was in route and would be catastrophic to the people, their livestock, and the economy in the dekota and nebraska praries. The cold front would cause one of the worst blizzards for the region, killing close to 500 people. The factors that made the death toll so high involve the mild weather before the storm, the lack of technology for warning systems, and bad timing.

On January 20,2014. Dallas Texas was a bad weather. It was much snows, and the damage was broken cares and some houses. The police officer did not allow people to go outside because the risk was more effect. However, many people attempted to ride a car because the cause wanted to go the hospital.

Coober Pedy is like a desert town. Coober Pedy has very few residents. Most of the residents live below ground in houses called “Dugouts”. Most of the people live below ground, because of the high daytime temperatures. Coober Pedy wouldn't be affected by a landslide, because a landslide is a sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff. It wouldn’t be affected because, Coober Pedy is a desert town, and there aren’t any major mountains around. Coober Pedy, wouldn’t be affected by an avalanche. It wouldn’t be affected because an avalanche is a mass of snow, ice, or rocks falling down a mountain side. Coober Pedy wouldn't be affected by an avalanche because there is no snow, and there are very high temperatures. Coober Pedy

actually happened on that Himalayan slope? When I first wrote about the event, I reported the

In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground; some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees. The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of the

The hypothesis that was being investigated in this research was that avalanches can be effectively predicted and safety measures taken to avoid their collateral damage. The hypothesis is directly related to the research question since it is through

For centuries, mountain dwellers and travelers have had to reckon with the deadly forces of snowy torrents descending with lightning speed down mountainsides. Researchers and experts are making progress in detection, prevention and safety measures, but avalanches still take their deadly toll

Nevertheless, it’s rigid to envision a snowstorm occurring. The snow began late Saturday night in several areas and, moving to the east, the potential for high winds and rain over the next 24 to 36 hours is likely to continue through the morning before tapering off in the early to middle afternoon. Fourteen and a half inches of snow fell in the during the storm. Powerful winds along with heavy snow tremendous damage were done to those trees and, therefore, there were plenty of power outages. Snow on everything a day without power, heat, television, or visitors, with time to look out the window at tapestries of falling snow and silent woodlands.

The continental transform fault extending over seven-hundred and fifty miles dividing into three segments ruptured swallowing hundreds of communities. The quakes had the strength of twenty millions tons of TNT leveling entire cities within minutes. In other