World's Deadliest Avalanche in Peru Triggered 60-Meter High Mud Killing 30,000 People

[Judi Lynn]

By Louise Franco May 31, 2022 10:29 PM EDT

Peru witnessed the world's deadliest avalanche in history 52 years ago.

Caused by a massive earthquake, the avalanche triggered a 60-meter high mudslide hurling towards a market town, killing more than 30,000 people and wiping everything on its path of destruction.

The natural calamity will later be known in history records as the 1970 Huascaran debris avalanche, where the tremor destabilized a nearby glacier on a mountain in Yungay Province, Peru.

The event has been considered to be the country's worst natural disaster in modern history.

For the past three decades, Peru experienced a series of relatively weaker yet lethal landslides caused by both geological and meteorological phenomena like strong quakes and heavy rain with flooding.

More:
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/51113/20220531/world-s-deadliest-avalanche-peru-triggered-60-meter-high-mud.htm

[niyad]

1. Almost unimaginable.

[cilla4progress]

2. So sudden!

And devastating.