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Debris cone in landslide-hit Blatten over 100 metres high in places
According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...
Glacier collapse in Blatten, Switzerland—A portent of an ecological catastrophe
On May 28, a mass of rock, ice, mud and water crashed down on and buried the mountain village of Blatten in the Swiss canton ...
A river dammed by a huge Swiss landslide is flowing again. That's a relief to authorities
Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
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Major avalanche in Switzerland: Blatten evacuated, one missing
More than 4.6 million cubic yards of ice, rocks, and snow avalanched from Birch Glacier onto the village of Blatten in the ...
Alpine village is largely destroyed when a Swiss glacier collapses
A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps, sending plumes of dust skyward near a village that authorities had ...
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Astonishing footage captures the moment an idyllic village is wiped out by glacier landslide
Just a few weeks after the picturesque village of Blatten, Switzerland, was evacuated over fears of an impending rockslide, a ...
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Glacier Chaos: Swiss Alps Avalanche Triggers Massive Rockslide
A massive glacier in the Swiss Alps disintegrated, triggering a rockslide that decimated parts of Blatten village in southern ...