Avalanche Hazard Assessment in Low Mountains, Based on the Example of the January 2021 Norilsk Avalanche Disaster

This paper presents the reconstruction results of catastrophic avalanche characteristics. The avalanche occurred on the slope of the Gora Otdelnaya ski resort on January 9, 2021 (Norilsk). It had a peak pressure of 0.266 MPa and led to the destruction of a suburban settlement, covering an area of ab...

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Autores principales: Lobkina, V. A., Gensiorovskiy, Yu. V., Muzychenko, A. A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Pleiades Publishing 2021
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Geography
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8252983/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X21060118
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description This paper presents the reconstruction results of catastrophic avalanche characteristics. The avalanche occurred on the slope of the Gora Otdelnaya ski resort on January 9, 2021 (Norilsk). It had a peak pressure of 0.266 MPa and led to the destruction of a suburban settlement, covering an area of about 0.9 ha. Six people got caught in the avalanch, of whom three were killed. The virtual and calculated boundaries of the maximum avalanche run-out distance are given. The causes of the catastrophe are also under investigation. An avalanche hazard assessment methodology for the Russian Arctic region and other poorly studied areas with no long-term avalanche observations is suggested.
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spelling pubmed-82529832021-07-02 Avalanche Hazard Assessment in Low Mountains, Based on the Example of the January 2021 Norilsk Avalanche Disaster Lobkina, V. A. Gensiorovskiy, Yu. V. Muzychenko, A. A. Dokl. Earth Sc. Geography This paper presents the reconstruction results of catastrophic avalanche characteristics. The avalanche occurred on the slope of the Gora Otdelnaya ski resort on January 9, 2021 (Norilsk). It had a peak pressure of 0.266 MPa and led to the destruction of a suburban settlement, covering an area of about 0.9 ha. Six people got caught in the avalanch, of whom three were killed. The virtual and calculated boundaries of the maximum avalanche run-out distance are given. The causes of the catastrophe are also under investigation. An avalanche hazard assessment methodology for the Russian Arctic region and other poorly studied areas with no long-term avalanche observations is suggested. Pleiades Publishing 2021-07-02 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8252983/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X21060118 Text en © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd. 2021, ISSN 1028-334X, Doklady Earth Sciences, 2021, Vol. 498, Part 2, pp. 509–513. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2021.Russian Text © The Author(s), 2021, published in Doklady Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk. Nauki o Zemle, 2021, Vol. 498, No. 2, pp. 183–188. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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Avalanche Hazard Assessment in Low Mountains, Based on the Example of the January 2021 Norilsk Avalanche Disaster
title Avalanche Hazard Assessment in Low Mountains, Based on the Example of the January 2021 Norilsk Avalanche Disaster
title_full Avalanche Hazard Assessment in Low Mountains, Based on the Example of the January 2021 Norilsk Avalanche Disaster
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title_short Avalanche Hazard Assessment in Low Mountains, Based on the Example of the January 2021 Norilsk Avalanche Disaster
title_sort avalanche hazard assessment in low mountains, based on the example of the january 2021 norilsk avalanche disaster
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8252983/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X21060118
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