{"id":44051,"date":"2023-06-26T07:07:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=44051"},"modified":"2023-06-26T07:07:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T07:07:02","slug":"sasso-rosso-landslide-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2023\/06\/26\/sasso-rosso-landslide-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide in Switzerland<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In the aftermath of the Brienz-Brinzauls landslide in Switzerland<\/a>, I have been looking at other notable events in that country.\u00a0 An open access paper (Condera et al.<\/em> 2018)<\/a> in an edited volume on Natural Hazards<\/em> briefly describe the 27 December 1898 Sasso Rossa landslide in Switzerland near to the village of Airolo in Ticino.\u00a0 This was a 500,000 cubic metre landslide that killed three people as well as destroying a hotel and 11 houses. The human losses were reduced by a successful evacuation of the school and parts of the village ahead of the main failure.<\/p>\n

Condera et al.<\/em> (2018)<\/a> included this image of the aftermath of the landslide, annotated to show the outlines of the scar and deposit:-<\/p>\n

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The aftermath of the 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide at Airolo. Image from Condera et al. (2018)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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The site is located at [46.540, 8.605]. The landslide scar and deposit are very clearly visible on Google Earth imagery (I have tried to get a view close to that above):-<\/p>\n

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Google Earth image of the site of the 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide at Airolo.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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There are also some postcards showing the aftermath of the landslide, such as this one, which is on sale on the Hip Postcard site<\/a>:-<\/p>\n

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Contemporary postcard showing the aftermath of the 27 December 1898 Sasso Rosso landslide at Airolo. The item is available for sale on the Hip Postcard site<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

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As with Brienz-Brinzauls, the Sasso Rosso landslide came remarkably close to causing much higher levels of damage.<\/p>\n

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Reference<\/h4>\n

Conedera, M., Bozzini, C., Ryter, U., Bertschinger, T., and Krebs, P. 2018.\u00a0 Using the Monoplotting Technique for Documenting and Analyzing Natural Hazard Events<\/a>. In: Antunes do Carmo, J.S. Natural Hazards<\/em><\/a>. IntechOpen. Doi: 10.5772\/intechopen.77321.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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