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Snow Avalanches
Rank High Among
Nature’s Destroyers
Washington — The snow avalanche, a phenomenon that recently engulfed mine Peruvian villages, is one of nature’s most destructive forces.
Snowslides approach the energy of tornadoes, earthquakes, and floods, the National Geographic Society says. They are not so widely feared, because most occur in remote mountain fastnesses where no one lives.
But an avalanche that strikes a settled area is awesome. Millions of tons of wet snow roar down a mountainside, sweeping up earth, boulders, and trees, smashing houses like matchboxes, erasing railroads and highways, blocking rivers, crushing concrete-and-steel bridges.
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