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They very rarely do ANY "damage"!

The only instances I can think of are events called Jokhulhaups (Spelling? - any Icelanders here?) - an Icelandic word for the sudden and catastrophic thawing of a glacier or ice-sheet by a volcanic eruption under it.

The resulting flood will rip up roads and bridges etc - so no-one in Iceland builds anything more than those where it may happen.

There have been smaller-scale but much more humanly-destructive, slightly similar events where eruptions have melted summit snow on volcanoes, creating violent mud-rivers that overwhelm anything in their path.

And of course, people who venture onto glaciers have been known to fall into crevasses.

But on the whole, glaciers do not "damage" anything. They are an integral but temporary part of their landscape which they are shaping!

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