The disused Vajont (or Vaiont) Dam is in which European country?
Vajont Dam Vajont Dam The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the valley of the Vajont River under Monte Toc, in the municipality of Erto e Casso, 100 km (60 miles) north of Venice, Italy. One of the tallest dams in the world, it is high, wide and thick at the base and wide and thick at the top. On 9 October 1963, during initial filling, a massive landslide caused a man-made megatsunami in the lake in which 50 million cubic metres of water overtopped the dam in a wave high, leading to 1,910 deaths
Vajont Dam The TV show "Seconds From Disaster" featured the event in episode two of the fifth season, "Mountain Tsunami" in 2012. In 2013, the eleventh stage of the Giro d'Italia finished in Vajont to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the disaster. The TV show "Make It Out Alive" (Smithsonian Channel) featured the disaster in November 2017 in Season 1, Episode 6. In March 2018, the dam and the disaster were also covered in Season 2, Episode 1 of Science Channel's "Mysteries of the Abandoned." Vajont Dam The Vajont Dam (or Vaiont Dam) is a disused dam, completed in 1959 in the