Monte Toc

Monte Toc
Elevation	1,921 m (6,302 ft)
Location
Monte Toc Italy
Coordinates	46°14′N 12°20′E / 46.233°N 12.333°E / 46.233; 12.333Coordinates: 46°14′N 12°20′E / 46.233°N 12.333°E / 46.233; 12.333

Monte Toc is a mountain on the border between Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia in Northern Italy best known for the Vajont Dam, which was built at the mountain's base in 1960.

On October 9, 1963, 260 million cubic metres of rock slid down the side of Mount Toc caused by a minor earth tremor and plunged into the reservoir created by the Vajont Dam at an estimated 100 mph, creating a seiche 250 metres high, that came over the dam wall and destroyed the town of Longarone and its suburbs, killing almost 2,000 people (sources report death of 1,909 persons, of which 1,450 only in Longarone).

External links

• Excerpt from Silenced Rivers: The Ecology and Politics of Large Dams by Patrick McCully