Italy's Tragic Engineering Disaster
Vajont Dam is a disused dam in northern Italy, the dam was one of the tallest dams in the world at the time it was built in the late 1960s.
In 1963 the dam was completely filled, later that year engineers began to see trees and rocks falling in the area, destroyed by a landslide. Based on the simulations they had created, the engineers believed that only a small wave would form in the reservoir as a result of this landslide.
On 9 October 1963 at 10:39pm a massive 260-million-cubic-meter chunk of the mountain began to hurtle down at an astonishing 68 m.p.h. As the mass fell into the reservoir, a 250-meter wave formed on impact, displacing 50 million cubic meters — or 13 billion gallons — of water in the process.
This resulting mega-tsunami completely demolished the villages in the Valley below. nearly 2,500 people lost their lives.
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