The Vajont Dam disaster began when about 574 billion pounds of rock collapsed into the reservoir in roughly 45 seconds. The impact created a tsunami-like wave that surged up to around 800 feet, ...

On October 9, 1963, a colossal engineering marvel became a monument to human overconfidence. High in the Italian Alps, the Vajont Dam- then the world’s tallest- withstood the unthinkable: a massive ...

The Vajont dam, 261 meters high. On 2 October 2015 the new Via ferrata della Memoria, also referred to as Via ferrata del Vajont, was inaugurated above the Vajont Gorge to remember the Vajont disaster ...

At 10:39 PM of October 9, 1963, a landslide of 250 million cubic meters of land is detached from Mount Toc and falls into the artificial reservoir created by the Vajont dam, located in the northern ...

Caption A photo taken from behind the Vajont Dam in Italy, where nearly 10 billion cubic feet of mountainside came to rest after crashing into a 600-foot-deep reservoir in 1963. Trees and other ...

Pope Francis looks at photos of the aftermath of a massive landslide in October 1963 that killed 1,910 people in northern Italy during an audience with pilgrims from the Diocese of Belluno-Feltre and ...

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc into the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, one of the the higher dams in the world. The landslide ...

During our recent ShakeOut drill, a number of people asked me about dam safety during earthquakes. I am not an earthquake engineer and by no means an expert in dam safety. But I have been poking into ...