Editing Barcelonnette (section)

===Hazards===
None of the 200 communes of the department is entirely free of seismic risk; the [[canton of Barcelonnette]] is placed in zone 1b (low risk) by the determinist classification of 1991 based on seismic history,<ref name="ddrm39">Prefecture of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, ''[http://www.alpes-de-haute-provence.pref.gouv.fr/pages/themes/defense/securite%20civile/index.html#menu1 Dossier départemental sur les risques majeurs dans les Alpes-de-Haute-Provence] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120922124859/http://www.alpes-de-haute-provence.pref.gouv.fr/pages/themes/defense/securite%20civile/index.html#menu1 |date=September 22, 2012 }}'' (DDRM), 2008, p. 39</ref> and zone 4 (average risk) according to the probabilistic EC8 classification of 2011.<ref name="prim">Minister of Ecology, Sustainable development, transport and housing, [http://macommune.prim.net/d_commune.php?insee=04019 Notice communale] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140723110254/http://macommune.prim.net/d_commune.php?insee=04019 |date=2014-07-23 }} on the Gaspar database, uploaded 8 July 2011, accessed 30 June 2012</ref> The commune is also vulnerable to avalanches, forest fires, floods, and landslides.<ref name="prim"/> Barcelonnette is also exposed to the possibility of a technological hazard in that road transport of dangerous materials is allowed to pass through on the RD900.<ref name="ppr">Prefecture of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, ''Dossier départemental sur les risques majeurs'', p. 95</ref><ref name="ddrm80">Prefecture of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, ''Dossier départemental sur les risques majeurs'', p. 80</ref>

The town has been subject to several orders of natural disaster: floods and mudslides in 1994 and 2008, and landslides in 1996 and 1999. The strongest recorded earthquakes in the region occurred on 5&nbsp;April&nbsp;1959, with its epicentre at [[Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye]] and a recorded intensity of 6.5 at Barcelonnette, and on 17&nbsp;February&nbsp;1947, with its epicentre at [[Prazzo]] over the Italian border.<ref name="brgm">[[BRGM]], "[http://www.sisfrance.net/Commune/liste.asp?LOCAL=false&ORDRE=false&INSEE=04019&XMIN=923496&XMAX=963496&YMIN=1919917&YMAX=1959917 Epicentres of distant tremors (greater than 40 km) felt in Barcelonnette] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150131042642/http://www.sisfrance.net/Commune/liste.asp?LOCAL=false&ORDRE=false&INSEE=04019&XMIN=923496&XMAX=963496&YMIN=1919917&YMAX=1959917 |date=January 31, 2015 }}", ''Sisfrance'', accessed 30 June 2012</ref>