Thirty years ago, in August 1996, a catastrophic flash flood swept through the Las Nieves campsite on the alluvial fan of the Barranco de Aras near Biescas in the Central Pyrenees of Aragón, Spain. The tragedy claimed 87 lives and injured over 180 people. This makes it one of the most severe weather-related disasters in modern European history. In the decades following the disaster, geoscientists ...[Read More]
Thirty years after Biescas: Rethinking alluvial fan flooding and infrastructure failure
Aftermath of the 1999 Carbadella flooding. Source: NHESS journal.