Yungay Avalanche 1970 The Mountain That Buried a City

The 1970 Yungay avalanche began high on Mount Huascarán in Peru and reached the city below in just minutes. Triggered by a massive earthquake, the collapse of ice, rock, and mud buried Yungay and killed thousands in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the history of the Western Hemisphere. In this episode of An Ounce, we look at the Yungay disaster, the 1970 Peru earthquake, the mountain warnings that came before it, and the brutal truth that some disasters feel sudden only because earlier warnings were ignored. Sometimes catastrophe looks like a surprise. But sometimes it’s a pattern no one wanted to see clearly. If you enjoy thoughtful explorations of history, risk, disaster, and human behavior,

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Yungay Avalanche 1970 The Mountain That Buried a City is an episode from An Ounce by Jim Fugate.

This episode is 10:49 long.

This episode was published on Mar 25, 2026.

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