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The village of St. Lorenzen, in the Styrian Palten valley is situated on the banks of the Lorenz torrent, in which a debris flow event occurred in the early morning hours of the 21st of July 2012, causing catastrophic damage to residential buildings and other infrastructural facilities. The aim of the very detailed event documentation and –analysis was to understand the extreme process sequence and to reconstruct and simulate the debris flow itself one- and two-dimensionally. There was a large media interest in this event. These results should therefore serve to help answer the multitude of questions, in the public as well as political spheres, about this event.
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Janu, S., Mehlhorn, S., Moser, M. (2015). Analysis and Reconstructed Modelling of the Debris Flow Event of the 21st of July 2012 of St. Lorenzen (Styria, Austria). In: Lollino, G., et al. Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 2. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09057-3_86
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