The present mortality as a result of snow avalanches exceeds the average mortality caused by earthquakes as well as all other forms of slope failure combined. Snow avalanches can range from small amounts of loose snow moving rapidly down a slope to slab avalanches, in which large chunks of snow break off and destroy everything in their path. Although considered a hazard in the United States since the westward expansion in the nineteenth century, in modern times snow avalanches are...
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Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 96 ● ISBN 9780309536516 ● Editorial National Academies Press ● Publicado 1990 ● Descargable 3 veces ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7150170 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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