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An avalanche is caused by the buildup and release of energy. Energy is released when the snowpack breaks apart and a slab of snow begins to slide downhill. The energy that drives an avalanche can come from a variety of sources including:
Avalanches are a powerful and destructive force of nature and it is important to understand the sources of energy that can cause them. By understanding the sources of energy that cause avalanches we can better prepare for them and prevent them from occurring.
Avalanches are caused when a big impact of noise strikes. This is because sound vibrates objects and therefore vibrates mounds of snow, causing them to tumble down.
Bad, they can destroy towns and kill people
Also CAN be good, but not a very good point. You may discover all sorts of things under the snow after the avalanche if you're not dead...
An avalanche can affect the man made environment by crushing villages, homes, and buildings.
This is an educated guess only: The most likely time of day for an avalanche would be in the afternoon and the most likely time of year would be in the spring. The logic behind this "guess" is that as the temperature begins to rise (i.e., in the afternoons and in the spring), the snow begins to melt resulting in the weight of the snowpack becoming heavier until reaching the point where the underlying snow is no longer able to support it and lets loose. This is assuming there is no external triggering event such as an earthquake.
Avalanches could be triggered by loud noise (yells, firearm shots, etc.). Skiers, snowboarders and climbers could also cause an avalanche.
There are two ways to reduce avalanche risks: by installing snowsheds or by triggering controlled avalanches. These protection fences are made of rocks, soil and other materials. They prevent avalanches to fill trails used by humans.
Controlled avalanches cause the accumulated snow to fall down before it could trigger avalanches by itself. When nobody is in danger, explosives are used to produce a loud noise that causes an avalanche.
Avalanches could be seen every winter in mountainous regions of Québec. Fortunately, they do not often occur near inhabited areas.
What to Do During an AvalancheDuring the winter, do not venture in the mountain without an adult.If you walk in a trail after a snow fall, do not walk in the middle of it, but rather on the side. Avalanches always fall down in the middle of the path; thus, if you are on the side, the risks of being hit by the avalanche are lower.
avalanches can destroy peoples homes and they can snow them in and they cant get out so
it is caused when anybody on a mountain in an avalanche danger zone does something that vibrates through the snow or anything that makes noises and sound waves (including screaming really loudly) which could cause small amounts of snow to move, then increasing in amounts until it becomes what we know as an avalanche.
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the way that people in an avalanche disaster area decrease the damage done by a avalanche is they put up snow fences that are like fences that stand on an angle and they are meant to break and roll with the snow and while the snow is rolling, it's very likely for the snow fences to stick back into the ground and that decreases the avalanches speed so that when it hits it isn't as bad
An avalanche occurs when a mass of snow falls down a mountainside. That is because new snow (which is not wet) accumulates on a more heavy snow layer. Since the new snow layer is not compact, it could slide down toward the base of the mountain. Avalanches could be triggered by loud noise (yells, firearm shots, etc.). Skiers, snowboarders and climbers could also cause an avalanche. There are two ways to reduce avalanche risks: by installing snowsheds or by triggering controlled avalanches. These protection fences are made of rocks, soil and other materials. They prevent avalanches to fill trails used by humans. Controlled avalanches cause the accumulated snow to fall down before it could trigger avalanches by itself. When nobody is in danger, explosives are used to produce a loud noise that causes an avalanche. Avalanches could be seen every winter in mountainous regions of Québec. Fortunately, they do not often occur near inhabited areas. During the winter, do not venture in the mountain without an adult. If you walk in a trail after a snow fall, do not walk in the middle of it, but rather on the side. Avalanches always fall down in the middle of the path; thus, if you are on the side, the risks of being hit by the avalanche are lower. * In 1999, an avalanche killed many people in Kangiqsualujjuaq, near the Ungava Bay in northern Québec.
The avalanches occur as a result of the snow packed mountains become to heavy to support itself and therefore fall at the base of the mountain.
The worst recent avalanche is the one that happened on 2007 in Georgia. It killed 1000 people and hundreds missing. The entire city was destroyed, buried in snow.
they have to build all the houses again and fix all the roads and trains. they also may have to give compensation for the injured. not as many tourists will visit if there is a big chance of avalanches, leaving less income.
they cause them safely, before an innocent snow sportist accidently starts it.
Avalanches are deadly because they could bury you under the snow and you could never get out from under there... I can't think of any avalanches that aren't really deadly though...
if you ever see yourself in the position that an avalanche is coming you should go off to the side as fast as you can to make sure you are out the way of the avalanche
You can measure how unstable they are with reasonable accuracy by digging snow pits and evaluating the different layers of the snow, seeing whether there are any particular weaknesses. Therefore this enables some sort of prediction as to when an avalanche may occur (in a space of a month or so), but they can not be completely accurately predicted. Also not everyone wants to dig snow pits in the steepest parts of the snow slopes and whats true for one location may not be true for another.
Therefore it is difficult to measure avalanches.