Vajont (Western Friulian: Vaiònt) is a comune (municipality) in the Regional decentralization entity of Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, north-eastern...
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The Vajont Dam or Vaiont Dam is a disused hydro-electric dam in northern Italy. It is one of the tallest dams in the world, with a height of 262 m (860 ft)...
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A comune (Italian: [koˈmuːne]; pl.: comuni, Italian: [koˈmuːni]) is an administrative division of Italy, roughly equivalent to a township or municipality...
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Casso, Pordenone (section The Vajont disaster)
village, as done in Erto, and the comune. (in Italian) Infos on italia.indettaglio.it (in Italian) Infos about the Vajont disaster on municipal website Archived...
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Longarone (category Pages using infobox Italian comune with unknown parameters)
places fifty years after the Vajont tragedy. Vol. 1. J-Reading. pp. 51–62. ISSN 2281-5694. Zito, Martina (2016-10-06). "The Vajont disaster and the strength...
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Erto e Casso (section Vajont disaster)
and Casso were the two villages in the Vajont (/vaˈjɔnt/) valley, above the artificial lake, before the Vajont Dam disaster on 9 October 1963. The landslide...
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Castellavazzo (section Vajont disaster)
of the Vajont Dam triggered a landslide. It was 270 million cubic metres (9.5×109 cu ft) of rock, forest and earth that slid into the Vajont Dam at 110...
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Italy's mountainous regions, leading to ecological disasters such as the 1963 Vajont Dam flood, and the 1998 Sarno and 2009 Messina mudslides. Italy has been...
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to widespread air and water pollution and ecological disasters like the Vajont Dam disaster and the Seveso chemical accident, until a green consciousness...
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