{"id":62742,"date":"2025-09-10T15:30:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=62742"},"modified":"2025-09-10T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:00:44","slug":"avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/avalanche\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Avalanche Latest News<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three Army personnel, including two Agniveers, lost their lives recently in a major avalanche at the Siachen base camp in Ladakh.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Avalanche<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An avalanche is a<\/span><b> large amount of snow<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that <\/span><b>quickly moves down a slope.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An avalanche can be <\/span><b>deadly <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">because it will <\/span><b>bury or sweep away anything in its path.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Large amounts of <\/span><b>sliding rocks, earth, or other materials<\/b> <b>may also be called avalanches. <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But these are <\/span><b>often known as landslides.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Many different conditions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">make an avalanche possible.\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An avalanche is more <\/span><b>likely to happen on a slope without trees or large rocks.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> These things help to keep snow in place.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>weak layer of snow <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also makes an avalanche likely.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once the conditions are right, <\/span><b>several things can start an avalanche.<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Heavy snowfall, strong wind, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b>rising temperatures<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> all c<\/span><b>an loosen snow<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on a slope.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Falling rocks or ice <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">also can cause snow to slide.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Even the movement of a skier, a snowboarder,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or a snowmobile can trigger an avalanche.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There are<\/span><b> two main types of snow avalanches\u2014sluffs and slabs.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Sluff <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">avalanches occur <\/span><b>when the weak layer of a snowpack is on the top.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A sluff is a small slide of dry, powdery snow that moves as a formless mass.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sluffs are much less dangerous than slab avalanches.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A <\/span><b>slab <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">avalanche occurs when the <\/span><b>weak layer lies lower down in a snowpack.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This layer is <\/span><b>covered with other layers of compressed snow.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the avalanche is triggered, the <\/span><b>weak layer breaks off<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>pulling all the layers on top of it down the slope.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These <\/span><b>layers tumble and fall in a giant block, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or slab.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Avalanches vary in destructive power<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from harmless to large enough to destroy mature forests or flatten villages.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>When an avalanche stops<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><b>snow becomes solid like concrete, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and people are unable to dig out.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People caught in avalanches can die from suffocation, trauma, or hypothermia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People in mountainous areas <\/span><b>protect themselves from avalanches in several ways.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Special fence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">s help to hold snow in place.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Barriers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">help to stop sliding snow or change its direction.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Explosives <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">help <\/span><b>to clear snow<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> from places where avalanches are likely to occur.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/3-army-personnel-killed-after-major-avalanche-hits-ladakhs-siachen-glacier-rescue-ops-underway-2784505-2025-09-09\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IT<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An avalanche is a large amount of snow that quickly moves down a slope. 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