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Children among 25 feared dead in Italy avalanche
« on: January 19, 2017, 01:41:29 pm »

Children among 25 feared dead in Italy avalanche
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By Ella IDE and Angus MACKINNON in Rome (AFP)     5 hours ago in Environment
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Several children were among more than 25 people unaccounted for, feared dead, Thursday after an avalanche engulfed a mountain hotel in earthquake-ravaged central Italy.

The national civil protection agency said the Hotel Rigopiano had suffered a direct hit by a two-metre (six-feet) high wall of snow on Wednesday.

Emergency services were struggling to get ambulances and excavation equipment to the remote site with the first snow plough only arriving just before midday.

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Re: Children among 25 feared dead in Italy avalanche
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2017, 05:43:19 pm »
Just saw this on the news - horrible!  The snow on the road appeared to be at least 10 feet deep.
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Re: Children among 25 feared dead in Italy avalanche
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2017, 06:03:07 pm »
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There are good details given about the previous quakes and movement of plates - will have my Bob, the earth scientist, talk to me about that region/plate connections to other plates, when he comes back from appointments today.

When we travel, it is like earth science class, as he describes what is under us and what the strata of formations he sees, is made of.  There are rocks from the world in and outside this house.

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Re: Children among 25 feared dead in Italy avalanche
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2017, 06:09:38 pm »
This is the same area that had devastating quakes not too long ago. At this point, they don't know whether the avalanche was the result of earth movement or just the extremely heavy snows. The report I saw didn't indicate whether seimographs picked up anything in recent days.
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Re: Children among 25 feared dead in Italy avalanche
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2017, 06:50:38 pm »
This is the same area that had devastating quakes not too long ago. At this point, they don't know whether the avalanche was the result of earth movement or just the extremely heavy snows. The report I saw didn't indicate whether seimographs picked up anything in recent days.
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"The region was hit by four seismic shocks measuring above five magnitude in the space of four hours on Wednesday, when at least one person was confirmed to have died. Quake experts said the tremors almost certainly triggered the snowslide.

The four-star hotel's guests had been assembled on the ground floor awaiting an evacuation following the quakes that was delayed by snow-blocked roads when the avalanche struck."



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Re: Children among 25 feared dead in Italy avalanche
« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2017, 01:30:42 pm »
Thanks, hadn't heard that.  **nononono*
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