1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche

Natural disaster in Turkey 1993 01 18 07:45 EET (05:15 UTC) Üzengili, Bayburt Province, Turkey 40.4985 40.3851 inline,title Turkey 200 center Cross.svg 6 Üzengili, Bayburt bottom 40 29 54.71 N 040 23 06.22 E 59 dead 21 injured The 1993 Bayburt Üzengili avalanche occurred on January 18, 1993, at around 07:45 local time (05:45 UTC) in Üzengili, a village of Bayburt Province in northeastern Turkey. It killed 59 people and injured 21, destroying 72 houses.Gürer İbrahim 2002 Türkiye'de Yerleşim Yerlerine Yönelik Kar ve Çığ Problemleri Türkiye Mühendislik Haberleri İMO 4-5-6 420–421–422 147–154 http://www.e-kutuphane.imo.org.tr/pdf/333.pdf Turkish 2010-10-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20120313190317/http://www.e-kutuphane.imo.org.tr/pdf/333.pdf 2012-03-13 dead http://ekutup.dpt.gov.tr/bolgesel/dap/ing/v4-1.pdf State Planning Organization Undersecretariat 2000 Eastern Anatolia Project Master Plan-Current Situation and Analysis-Local Characteristics, Settlements, General Evaluation IV 144 2010-10-15 https://web.archive.org/web/20100307054530/http://ekutup.dpt.gov.tr/bolgesel/dap/ing/v4-1.pdf 2010-03-07 dead Location and terrain Üzengili is a mountain village situated at an elevation of 2025 m ft on on the southern edge of the Soğanlı Mountains within the Eastern Blacksea Mountain Range (tr Doğu Karadeniz Dağları). It is 36 km mi on north-east of Bayburt close to the Bayburt-Trabzon provincial border. The top of the hill at the backside of the village is 3193 m ft on high Amsl. Unlike the northern slopes of the mountains in that region, which are densely covered with forest, the south facing part, where the village is located, has almost no trees.Natural Hazards Two-phase Numerical Model of Powder Avalanche-Theory and Application Mohamed Naaimi İbrahim Gürer Kluwer Academic 17 129–145 1998 2 10.1023/a:1008002203275 128580018 In 1990, the village had a population of 355. https://kutuphane.tuik.gov.tr/pdf/0013349.pdf 1990 General Census 1991 Turkish Statistical Institute Turkish https://web.archive.org/web/20210831205734/https://kutuphane.tuik.gov.tr/pdf/0013349.pdf 31 August 2021 live Weather conditions According to the data from the Turkish State Meteorological Service, recorded at the weather station in Bayburt, the area was covered by snow on January 16. As the temperature there was -5 °C °F at 21:00 local time on that day, it dropped to -15 °C °F the next day, resulting in formation of surface crusts. During the daytime of January 17, the temperature rose up and the snow pack melted at the surface. In the late hours of that day, the snow pack's surface formed a melt-freeze crust by refreezing with the dropping temperature. Freshly precipitated snow in the night of January 17 and in the early hours of the next day covered the melt-crust surface.http://www.dmi.gov.tr/FILES/arastirma/cigdankorunma.pdf Devlet Meteoroloji İşleri Genel Müdürlüğü Taştekin Ahmet Tolga Meteoroloji ve Çığ Turkish 2010-10-13 https://web.archive.org/web/20111008214841/http://www.dmi.gov.tr/FILES/arastirma/cigdankorunma.pdf 2011-10-08 dead Disaster The avalanche flowed 4150 m ft on downwards at an average slope angle of 17 degrees, and struck the village at around 07:45 local time. The snow masses destroyed a total of 72 houses and buried more than 70 people and a great number of animals. The natural disaster caused the life losses of 59 people and 650 livestock. 21 people were injured at the incident. As a result of the disaster and the future avalanche risk at the location, Üzengili village, comprising 116 houses, has been relocated to another place in a safe zone. In 1997, the settlement counted 166 inhabitants.http://bayburtkoyleri.blogcu.com/uzengili-bayburt/3622415 Bayburt Köyleri Bayburt ve İlçeleri Tanıtım Turkish 2010-10-15 2011-07-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20110708014130/http://bayburtkoyleri.blogcu.com/uzengili-bayburt/3622415 dead References 2 Further reading Gürer, I., Naaim, M. (1993) "18 Ocak 1993 de Kuzey Doğu Bölgesinde Bayburt-Üzengili'de Çığ Olayları", 2. Avalanche Dynamics Workshop, 3–8 October 1993, Innsbruck, Austria 15 p, (presented in the workshop). 1993 Category:1993 natural disasters Category:History of Bayburt Province Category:Avalanches in Asia Category:Natural disasters in Turkey Category:January 1993 in Turkey Category:1993 disasters in Turkey