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About susceptibility of settlements of the sadonsky gorge of the republic Northern Ossetia-Alaniya to torrential danger

D. R. Dzhappuev

Kabardin-Balkar Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences Center of Geographic Researches, 360002, KBR, Nalchik, 2, Balkarova street

Abstract: In this work the facts of sill torrent phenomenon on the rivers of the Sadonsky gorge of the North Ossetian Republic from the point of view of the actual and potentially possible torrential danger on the example of settlements – Kuraytta, Galon, Sadon, for allocation of potentially subject zones to their destructive force and identifications of dynamics of torrential activity in this territory are demonstrated and analyzed.

Keywords: natural hazards, torrential pool, torrential course, mud stream, carrying out cone, catastrophic mudflow, maximum volume of carrying out.

UDC: 502.5+504.4+551.4.044

Received: 27.07.2015

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