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Saturday, January 28, 2017

How an Avalanche Forms?

An avalanche is a large quantity of snow sliding down a mountainside rapidly.

 While it is comparable to a landslide, the difference between the two is that in an avalanche, it is snow that gets dislodged, instead of earth. 

An avalanche can be caused by both natural and artificial phenomena - earthquakes, animal movement, fresh snowfall or heavy rain fall under natural causes, while skiers & explosives under artificial ones.




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