Camera Captures Massive Glacier Break That Buried Swiss Town
Camera Captures Massive Glacier Break That Buried Swiss Town
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Before and after of Blatten, Switzerland — a village buried on May 28 following the collapse of the Birch Glacier. Around 90% of Blatten was overtaken by millions of cubic meters of ice, rock, and mud. Thanks to a full evacuation days earlier, prompted by smaller preceding slides, mass casualties were avoided — though one person remains missing. Check out our feed for additional imagery and a video of the slide as it happened. Created by @dailyoverview 📸 Source imagery: @maxartechnologies / @pl
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The moment Blatten was buried when the Birch Glacier partially collapsed.
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Swiss Village Buried After Glacier Collapse Triggers Avalanche A massive avalanche of ice, mud, and rock buried much of the mountain village of Blatten, southern Switzerland, after the Birch Glacier collapsed on Wednesday. Photos showed the village nearly submerged, with only a few rooftops poking through the debris. The glacier had shown signs of instability, prompting engineers to issue evacuation warnings over a week earlier — a move credited with preventing loss of life. The avalanche’s impa
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"We’ve lost our village. The village is under rubble.” Ninety percent of the Swiss town of Blatten has been buried under a landslide after a massive piece of glacier collapsed on Wednesday, officials said. Experts had been warning for days of the “worst-case scenario,” prompting the evacuation of hundreds in the town. The devastation comes after repeated concerns from glaciologists about thawing in the country’s glaciers. Switzerland has the most glaciers of any country in Europe, but has seen d
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⚠️ Swiss Village Buried by Glacier Collapse ⚠️ We warned about this last week when the village of Blatten was being evacuated. Now it has happened. A massive section of the Birch Glacier has broken away, triggering a deadly flow of ice, rock, and mud that has destroyed much of the village. The collapse hit at 3:30pm local time. One person is missing. The rest had only just escaped after geologists confirmed the glacier was breaking apart. Drone footage shows total destruction. Homes were swept a
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