During May 1970 tragedy happened in Yungay, Peru is an undersea earthquake that triggered a catastrophic snow slips recorded in history that wipes out the entire mountainous land town of Yungay and its 25,000 residents. The quake damaged the river of ice formed by the accumulation and compaction of snow on mountains or near the poles which caused the 10 million cubic meters of rock, snow, and ice to break away and destruct its slope. Many of the inhabitants were buried and crushed by the landslide. The reported death were 74,000 and 25,600 were declared missing.
