A genaral view of the village of Erto near the Vajont dam, Veneto Italy now nearly abandoned on the day of the 48th anniversar

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A genaral view of the Vajont dam on the day of the 48th anniversary of the tragedy that killed more than 2000 people. On the night of the 9th October 1963 a landslide of about 260 million cubic meter of forest, earth, and rock , fell into the reservoir at up to 110 km per hour. The resulting displacement of water caused 50 million m³ of water to over-top the dam in a 250 m high wave.

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Size: 3000px × 1971px
Location: Casso, Italy
Photo credit: © Marco Secchi / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: dam, damn, disaster, erto, italy, landslide, tragedy, vajont