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and its suburbs. 1,918 people were killed, 1,450 of whom were in
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250 metres high over the dam wall and destroying the town of
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The area of the 1963 landslide on Monte Toc, taken in 2005
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Silenced Rivers: The
Ecology and Politics of Large Dams
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300:"Italy Vajont anniversary: Night of the 'tsunami'"
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246:. La Stampa. 9 October 2008. Archived from
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274:"The Vaiont (Vajont) landslide of 1963"
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168:The Walking Mountain
124:Location in the Alps
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205:References
184:Vajont Dam
199:Longarone
164:Monte Toc
138:Pordenone
118:Monte Toc
93:Geography
45:Elevation
22:Monte Toc
304:BBC News
254:11 March
188:Friulian
134:Location
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