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Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...
The search for a 64-year-old man was suspended on Thursday after a huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier crashed down a ...
A chunk of a large glacier broke off, triggering an enormous landslide that has destroyed the village of Blatten.
In the Swiss valley of Lötschental, a dramatic landslide nearly destroyed the mountain village of Blatten entirely. A massive ...
Switzerland is a success story in predicting landslides— but more must be done to help the rest of the world prepare for ...
Villagers lost their entire livelihood within minutes. One former resident lost their wooden family house built in 1654.
Swiss Solidarity’s provisional donation amount for the landslide area was around CHF4.3 million ($5.2 million).
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 ...
Just a few weeks after the picturesque village of Blatten, Switzerland, was evacuated over fears of an impending rockslide, a ...
At least one person is missing after the village, Blatten, in the Valais Canton in southern Switzerland, was buried beneath ...
Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the ...
The landslide sent plumes of dust skyward and coated with mud nearly all of an Alpine village that authorities had evacuated ...