41. Natural Hazards, Vol. 18 Issue 1, Table Of Contents The physicosociological impacts of avalanche disasters, avalanche mappingand zoning of disaster areas on local people are also studied. http://www.earthscape.org/r2/nh/nhvol18-1/nhvol18-104.html

42. Books On The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Team 5. Colorado avalanche disasters, Colorado avalanche disasters from WesternReflections Price $12.95 Customer Review This book was great. http://www.dropbears.com/b/broughsbooks/sport/colorado_avalanche.htm

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43. Avalanche Center Links - Natural Disasters avalanche Center Liks page Natural Disaster websites NOAA Natural Hazards Data. CSAC avalanche information. www.csac.org http://www.csac.org/links/disaster.html

Avalanche Center Links - Natural Disasters Home Page Pages with Links to the CSAC EcoIQ - Conserving the Built Environment US Nonprofit Organizations James Millington's Natural Hazards Avalanches ... CSAC Avalanche information www.csac.org

44. Disaster Message Service Disaster Message Service Other disasters avalanches By Elaine grant on Saturday,November 20, 1999 0459 pm what affect avalanche and what are they made http://216.157.75.11/discus/messages/85/454.html?948482040

45. Disasters! Choose a disaster. avalanche. http://www.msp.gouv.qc.ca/jeunesse/catastrophe/toutsecuritecivile/avalanche_en.h

Disasters! Let's Play ! Download Your Opinion ... Natural Disasters Choose a disaster Avalanche Wildfire Flood Winter Storm Thunderstorm Hail Tornado Hurricane Earthquake Volcano Tsunami Rockslide and Landslide Avalanche An avalanche occurs when a mass of snow falls down a mountainside. That is because new snow (which is not wet) accumulates on a more heavy snow layer. Since the new snow layer is not compact, it could slide down toward the base of the mountain. Avalanches could be triggered by loud noise (yells, firearm shots, etc.). Skiers, snowboarders and climbers could also cause an avalanche. There are two ways to reduce avalanche risks: by installing snowsheds or by triggering controlled avalanches. These protection fences are made of rocks, soil and other materials. They prevent avalanches to fill trails used by humans. Controlled avalanches cause the accumulated snow to fall down before it could trigger avalanches by itself. When nobody is in danger, explosives are used to produce a loud noise that causes an avalanche.

46. Disasters Choose a Section. avalanche, Rock Slide and Landslide. avalanche. http://www.msp.gouv.qc.ca/jeunesse/coinprofs/avalanche_en.asp

Disasters Games Download Your Opinion ... Natural Disasters Choose a Section Avalanche Wildfire Flood Winter Storm Thunderstorm Hail Tornado Hurricane Earthquake Volcano Avalanche, Rock Slide and Landslide However, landslides can take other forms, namely rock slides and avalanches. Avalanche Avalanches could be made of snow and rock debris. In both situations, avalanches usually cause a lot of damages. During a snowfall, the hard snow layer is covered with a new snow layer, less compact and heavy. This new layer is less stable than the first, and any loud sound or movement is enough to cause this layer to fall down the mountainside. That is why wilderness skiers sometimes trigger avalanches. To reduce avalanche risks, snowsheds are constructed where snow accumulates in mountains. Small avalanches are also triggered by firing shots in hazard areas. The sound produced by these shots triggers small avalanches, which prevent snow accumulation that could lead to bigger and more dangerous ones. For your own safety, you must never venture alone in the mountain during winter. It is better to look up the avalanche risks for the region. Finally, always stay in marked ski runs and, if possible, near the sides of these runs.

47. Natural World/Natural Disasters/Fastest Avalanche NATURAL WORLD NATURAL disasters FASTEST avalanche. Fastest avalanche Thevolcanic explosion of Mount St Helens on May 18, 1980, triggered the fastest http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=49223

48. Natural World/Natural Disasters/Trapped By Avalanche NATURAL WORLD NATURAL disasters TRAPPED BY avalanche. Most People TrappedIn An avalanche A total of 240 people died and over 45,000 were trapped on http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=49220

49. History Channel Classroom: What causes avalanches? Although the power of an avalanche is deadly, usuallythe death tolls are low in comparison with other natural disasters. Why? http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/admin/study_guide/archives/thc_guide.051

The Wrath of God: Disasters in America This series examines some of the disasters, natural and man-made, that have had historical significance in America. The results of these disasters have ranged from weather warning systems to fire code regulations, but at a great price. Because of the loss of life and property these disasters caused, steps were taken to reduce and to eliminate the tragedies of similar disasters in the future. Wrath of God: Disasters in America would be useful for classes on American History, Civics, American Culture, Science and Technology, Geography and Safety. It is appropriate for middle school and high school. Avalanches This episode of The Wrath of God examines the deadly power of snow. Delicate crystals that resemble ornaments of white lace, snowflakes can combine under the right circumstances to yield a destructive force that is as deadly as it is beautiful. Avalanches recounts the worst avalanche disaster in America, when a wall of white destroyed an entire train and all its contents, including the passengers. It also takes a look at the miraculous survival of a Colorado man who lived to tell the story of his encounter with the mountain. anomaly asphyxiated crescendo disgruntled ... spellbinding Discussion Questions Avalanches are cascades of snow that tumble down a mountain under the right conditions. What are some of these conditions? What causes avalanches?

50. Homework Help--Science And Technology--Earth Sciences on natural hazards and human adjustments to hazards and disasters. American avalancheAssociation Common questions about avalanches, the latest avalanche http://www.kcls.org/hh/geology.cfm

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51. Neill's Geology: Disasters! Are disasters So Cool You Just Can t Stand Them? Well, Check These Places Out! PicturesCourtesy Of National Geophysical Data Center The Colorado avalanche http://members.tripod.com/~ciara_n/geology/disaster.html

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "tripod.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" Neill's Geology: Disasters! Home Glaciologists Marine Geologists Paleontologists ... Gemmologists Landslides When you here the word Landslide ! what do you think of? You say you think of a mass of snow, rocks, or wet mud sliding down from a high altitude triggered by a catalyst event? By golly, you're right! Landslides occur along something called (are you ready?) a plane of structural weakness ! So what, you say? Well, that means that all this muck coming down the side of the mountain, heading straight for you and your dog and your little log shack, is following the path of least resistance. The plane of structural weakness ! is the term for a path, in the mountain, that is relatively free of debris and usually is between the two highest points of the mountain. Some landslides are called mudflows , and, man, you would never saturation ). Mudflows are so strong sometimes that they carry enourmous boulders down the mountain. If the mudflow is really big, it can destroy nearby towns. I'm not kidding. Some mudflows are active for years ! Isn't that amazing? It's all part of the really super cool way that Geology works: Volcanoes and converging plates push mountains up, and mudflows and rain tear them back down, bit by tiny bit, over thousands of years, until they are flat. See, without mudflows and

52. CBS NEWS Disaster Links Cyberspace Snow and avalanche Center. Northwest Weather and avalanche Center. Ready.GovPreparing for Terrorism. Red Cross Dealing with Unexpected disasters. http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.shtml

CBS NEWS DISASTER LINKS contains updated websites for quick reference. Please email Dan Dubno at CBS News Special Events if there is an important link omitted or if a link is broken. DISASTERS-COMPREHENSIVE CBS News Interactive: N atural Disasters US Government Office of Homeland Security DHS Disaster Help Emergency Planning and Prevention Emergency Response and Recovery ... Ready.Gov: Useful Sites Other ESRI-Hazards Disasterrelief.org Relief Web Incident.com Events Map ... Emergency-Management.net AIRPLANE DISASTERS Air Disaster.com Airline Safety.Com AirSafe Airliners.Net ... Tail Numbers Flight Tracking Software Airnavsystems Flight Explorer Flight View Trip.com ... Yahoo! Aviation News Int'l Air Safety Boards (Australia) Bureau of Aviation Safety Investigation (Canada) Transportation Safety Board (Ireland) Air Accident Investigation Unit (New Zealand) Transport Accident Commission AVALANCHE Avalanche.org Avalanche Danger Scale Boulder Colorado Climate and Weather Data Cyberspace Snow and Avalanche Center ... CBS News Interactive: Biological / Chemical Weapons General (DHS) Weapons of Mass Destruction Ready.Gov: Preparing for Terrorism

53. CBS NEWS Disaster Links Cyberspace Snow and avalanche Center. Northwest Weather and avalanche Center. COMMERCIALSATELLITE DISASTER IMAGES. Space Imaging. Digital Globe. Orbimage. SPOT. http://www.cbsnews.com/digitaldan/disaster/disasters.htm

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54. THE DISASTER PAGE! 2002 - 2003 avalanche. WILDFIRES at Yellowstone. I really like this site! Earth Alert. AndTry Natural disasters Web Site. Floods, avalanches, and Tidal Waves . http://members.aol.com/letsgorngr/tragic.html

WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF DISASTERS "Ye Not Knoweth The Future, Prepareth For Fate" Disasters can devastate any one of us at any given moment. Whether manmade , or nature's fury, there are conditions surrounding us which will inevitably sculpt our future. AIRCRAFT TRAIN SPACE MISSIONS GREAT FIRES ... IN MEMORY PAGE 9-11-01 A Small Humble Page With A Broken Heart "AIRLINE/AIRCRAFT" ValuJet Flight 592 It was a Saturday afternoon, another day in the short but successful life of ValuJet, a three-year-old discount airline; an afternoon in which more than 100 people in Miami some on their way somewhere for Mother's Day visits boarded ValuJet Flight 592 bound for Atlanta. THE HINDENBURG Battleship Hindenburg Crash of the German Airship Hindenburg Hindenburg Explosion Radio Broadcast The Hindenburg Disaster ... Description of Hindenburg Crash TWA Flight 800 Rocket, bomb, static electricity? CNN's completed coverage of the crash can be found here TWA 800 reconstruction Press Coverage of TWA Flight 800 Air India Flight 182 ... Official Report Historical Timeline of Aircraft Crashes BACK TO THE TOP OF THIS PAGE "Railroad Accidents" Railway Wrecks and Wrecking - 1901 Ashtabula Disaster - 1876 The "Angola Horror" - 1867 The "Housatonic Slaughter" - 1865 ... Toledo, Peoria and Western Railroad - Disaster - 1887

55. Geological Survey This avalanche is thus the earliest recorded avalanche in Canada possibly in NorthAmerica, the worst avalanche disaster in the history of the province, and http://www.gov.nl.ca/mines&en/geosurvey/disasters/avalanches/1781_82.stm

Branch Home Home Contact Us FAQs ... Maps Search Choose a topic . . . Government Home Department Home About Us Conferences Contact Us Education Electricity Exploration FAQs Feedback Geology How Do I... Industry Info Legislation Mineral Rights Mining News Releases Permits Programs We Offer Publications Quarry Rights Related Sites Statistics Related Information Education Resources Ordering Information Publication Catalogue Date: Winter, 1781/82 Location: Nain Easting: Northing: Latitude: 56° 32' 00" N Longitude: 61° 41' 00" W Fatalities: Injuries: Source: NAC MG17 D1 B-X-1 pp.38,750 et ff., microfilm reel M-509 The earliest recorded Canadian avalanche Wallace J.McLean, a keen historian and Labradorian in the course of his researches came across an account of a dreadful tragedy in the Nain area in the late 18th century. Mr. McLean was studying the Moravian Mission papers from Labrador and found, in a postscript to a 1782 letter signed "your sincear well wishers, the Missionarys at Nain and in their names" the following: "A Lamentable Circumstance has happened this last winter [i.e. 1781-82] about twelve miles from us [i.e., at Nain], upon the edge of a hill under which was an Esquimaux winter hauss where 31 Esquimaux lived, there gather'd a monstrous body of snow which shot all at once down and pressed the winter hauss even with the ground, with all the people in it excepting one man who was buried in the snow without. Out of 31 only 9 got out alive".

56. Science, Earth Sciences, Natural Disasters And Hazards: Avalanches SportsWinter SportsSkiingBackcountryavalanche. avalanche Centers and Organizations Liste of organizations from the Westwide avalanche Network. http://www.combose.com/Science/Earth_Sciences/Natural_Disasters_and_Hazards/Aval

Top Science Earth Sciences Natural Disasters and Hazards ... Avalanches Related links of interest: Sports:Winter Sports:Skiing:Backcountry:Avalanche Avalanche Centers and Organizations - Liste of organizations from the Westwide Avalanche Network. Canadian Avalanche Association - Contributes to the goal of reducing avalanche incidents world wide. Colorado Avalanche Information Center - Provides avalanche forecasts and warnings for Colorado. Includes accident reports and educational resources. US and World Avalanche Accident Statistics - Provides U.S. avalanche accident and fatality statistics from 1950 to the present and world statistics 1985-1999. Includes also current information, hotlines, and maps. University of Calgary Avalanche Research - Research on all aspects avalanche formation. Utah Avalanche Forecast Center - Avalanche forcasting for Utah ski areas. Westwide Avalanche Network - Current avalanche information around the world. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web. Submit a Site Open Directory Project Become an Editor The combose.com directory is based on the

57. Natural Disasters Natural disasters Definition Calamity caused by nature resulting in loss of lifeor destruction of property. http//www.un.org/popin/. avalanche A large mass http://hsmedia.nksd.net/project_links/natural_disasters/avalanche.htm

Natural Disasters Definition: Calamity caused by nature resulting in loss of life or destruction of property. http://www.un.org/popin/ Tsunami Hurricane Flood ... Multiple Disasters Avalanche: A large mass of rock debris or snow that moves rapidly down a mountain slope, sweeping and grinding everything in its path. Informative Sites: http://nsidc.org/snow/avalanche/index.html http://www.avalanche.org/# http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/avalanche/ http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/regions/northcentral/Maint/Avalanche/slab.cfm ... http://www.rmbl.org/weather/avaldef.html

58. Avalanche chance of survival. Such is the power of an avalanche, perhaps the mostsudden of all disasters. Unpredictable, they announce themselves http://www.germantown.k12.il.us/html/avalanche1.html

Grade 7 Natural Disasters Project People who live on mountains have learned to fear the "white death." In minutes, an entire town can be swallwed up with snow, with no chance of survival. Such is the power of an avalanche, perhaps the most sudden of all disasters. Unpredictable, they announce themselves with little more than a thunderous roar moments before onslaught, and can be triggered by a single skier. A chunk of ice the size of a school breaks loose from a glacier on a mountain. The falling ice block crashes into a snowy slope, launching a massive avalanche. A million tons of snow rumbles eight miles downhill, kicking up a cloud of snow dust seen a hundred miles away. This is not a scene from a disaster movie- this was reality on April 12, 1981. The mountain was Mount Sanford in Alaska, and the event was one of history's bigger avalanches. Amazingly no one was hurt, and luckily avalanches that big are rare. Avalanches are moving masses of snow that sometimes contain ice, soil, rocks, and even uprooted trees. Avalanches are most common on slopes exceeding 30 degrees, frequently when a deep snow falls suddenly and does not have a chance to cohere, or when a thaw undercuts a blanket of older snow. Pelletlike snow (graupnel) is also more prone to avalanche than a fall of ordinary snowflakes. Flows of wind-packed slabs of snow can be especially hazardous. Avalanches have been known to reach speeds of 200 miles an hour - almost five times faster than the fastest skier.

59. Lukol Directory - Science Earth Sciences Natural Disasters And Hazards Avalanche Westwide avalanche Network Current avalanche information around theworld. http//www.avalanche.org/. http//www.avalanche.org/~uafc/. http://www.lukol.com/Top/Science/Earth_Sciences/Natural_Disasters_and_Hazards/Av

Lukol Directory - Science Earth Sciences Natural Disasters and Hazards ... Westwide Avalanche Network Current avalanche information around the world. http://www.avalanche.org/ US and World Avalanche Accident Statistics Provides U.S. avalanche accident and fatality statistics from 1950 to the present and world statistics 1985-1999. Includes also current information, hotlines, and maps. http://geosurvey.state.co.us/avalanche/US_World... Canadian Avalanche Association Contributes to the goal of reducing avalanche incidents world wide. http://www.avalanche.ca/ University of Calgary Avalanche Research Research on all aspects avalanche formation. http://www.eng.ucalgary.ca/Civil/Avalanche/ Utah Avalanche Forecast Center Avalanche forcasting for Utah ski areas. http://www.avalanche.org/~uafc/ Colorado Avalanche Information Center Provides avalanche forecasts and warnings for Colorado. Includes accident reports and educational resources. http://geosurvey.state.co.us/avalanche/ Avalanche Centers and Organizations Liste of organizations from the Westwide Avalanche Network. http://www.avalanche.org/avcenters.htm

60. The Atlas Of Canada - Statistics On Major Avalanches people were waiting out a storm in a small café when an avalanche struck the building.Source Emergency Preparedness Canada. Significant disasters in Canada http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/maps/environment/naturalhazards/majoravalanches/

Français Contact Us Help Search ... Site Search Our Site Enter your keywords Explore Our Maps Learning Resources Home Explore Maps ... Major Avalanches Statistics on Major Avalanches Major Avalanches The following are descriptions of all the major avalanches shown on the map. Roger's Pass-1906 Roger's Pass, British Columbia; 62 dead. Source: Emergency Preparedness Canada. Roger's Pass-1910 Roger's Pass, British Columbia; 62 dead (CPR workmen), one survivor; an avalanche struck workers as they cleared the tracks of snow dumped by a previous slide. Source: Emergency Preparedness Canada. Significant Disasters in Canada, September, 1995. Cooper Mine-1915 Cooper Mine, Jane Camp, British Columbia; 56 dead, approximately 22 injured; a rock avalanche from above a portal of a mine wiped out half the buildings at a mine campsite, catching many miners in their bunkhouses. Source: International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Canadian National Report. Royal Society of Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering, 1994.

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