Javascript must be enabled to use all features of this site and to avoid misfunctions
1949 Khait landslide vs. 1856 Mount Awu - Comparison...
HOME
Select category:
Disasters
Select category
NEW

Advertising

Cancel

Search in
Close

1949 Khait landslide vs 1856 Mount Awu

1949 Khait landslide
1856 Mount Awu
Change

1949 Khait landslide

Total costsN/A
Deaths 28000

Informations

The Khait or Hoit landslide occurred on July 10, 1949 in the Hoit district in the Gharm Oblast in the Tajikistan, then part of the Soviet Union. 'Khait' is a transliteration from Russian: Хаит; local modern spelling: Hoit (Tajik: Ҳоит). The landslide was triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake and buried 33 villages and has by some estimates killed 28,000 people. News of the landslide was not publicly revealed by the government and details of the disaster were not revealed until after the fall of the Soviet Union. A marble statue of a woman with her head and hands lowered and an expression of grief was later erected at the site.

Source: Wikipedia
Change

1856 Mount Awu

Total costsN/A
Deaths 2806

Informations

Mount Awu (Indonesian: Gunung Awu) is the largest volcano in the Sangihe chain, located in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Powerful eruptions occurred in 1711, 1812, 1856, 1892 and 1966 with devastating pyroclastic flows and lahars that have resulted in more than 8,000 fatalities altogether. A 4.5 km wide crater is found at the summit and a deep valley forms a passageway for lahars, splitting the flanks from the crater. This is a volcano in the Ring of Fire.

Source: Wikipedia

More intresting stuff