Kolka–Karmadon Rock Ice Slide
The Kolka–Karmadon rock-ice slide occurred on the northern slope of the Mount Kazbek massif in North Ossetia–Alania on 20 September 2002, following a partial collapse of the Kolka Glacier. It started on the north-northeast wall of Dzhimarai-Khokh, above sea level, and seriously affected the valley of Genaldon and Karmadon. The resulting avalanche and mudflow killed more than 120 people, including a film crew of 27 people, among them Russian actor and director Sergei Bodrov Jr.(25 September 2002)Sergei Bodrov: Russia's lost actor BBC. Retrieved 20 November 2016. While this type of avalanche is not uncommon, this particular event is considered extraordinary because of several aspects. Collapse The main deposit settled from the face of Dzhimarai-Khokh. A thick chunk of the Kolka Glacier travelled down the Karmadon Gorge and Koban Valley at over . The outflow of mud and debris measured wide and thick. Two villages along the gorge were under surveillance as flood waters ...
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List Of Avalanches
This is an incomplete list of notable avalanches. See also *Avalanche * List of natural disasters by death toll References External links {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Avalanches * Avalanches in the United States Death in the United Kingdom Death in the United States Avalanches Avalanche An avalanche is a rapid flow of snow down a slope, such as a hill or mountain. Avalanches can be set off spontaneously, by such factors as increased precipitation or snowpack weakening, or by external means such as humans, animals, and earth ...

2000s Avalanches
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ...
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