Posted on 05/28/2025 7:41:23 PM PDT by texas booster
A huge portion of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off from the mountainside, sending rock, mud and ice crashing onto the village of Blatten.
Authorities have been warning of a potential collapse of the Birch glacier for weeks now as cracks appeared in the ice. Earlier this month, villagers and livestock were evacuated from Blatten, which sits in the valley below the glacier and is home to around 300 people.
Webcam and drone images from 28 May show enormous plumes of dust billowing into the Alpine valley as the glacier collapsed, with a huge wave of mud and boulders covering the hillsides and most of the village.
There are no reports of casualties, although one person has been reported missing, according to a press conference held in a neighbouring village on 28 May. The village of Blatten is now largely buried under rubble. The glacier collapse caused an earthquake measuring 3.1 on the Richter scale, according to seismic data.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
Glaciers come and go. Who knew?
“Blatten” means “leaf” in German.
We all could die tomorrow. Or not.
Riding high in April....buried in May
And global warming alarmists are crying and yelling “climate change”, “climate change”, “climate change”, etc.
Blatten down the hatches!
Couldn’t find a news site with English options which didn’t demand disabling ad blockers.
Your link talks big about web cams, drones and videos of the landslide, but gives up one still pic.
I was just watching a video about this somewhere today. Youtube maybe?
With that in mind, her is one that I like:
"CATASTROPHE of the Century" - WORST CASE HAPPENED - Blatten is Buried - Glacier came down at once !
Just remember to breathe occasionally while watching it.
Basically a huge avalanche.
Those had been happening since ever.
In my life, I remember several similar ones in Alps and elsewhere.
In past, they caused severe loss of life.
I am glad, they could predict it now, and evacuated the village!
“Blatten down the hatches!”
LOL!
Blatten done been flattened
Blatten got flattened. As we say around here “you’ll get that”. Sorry for those that lost property.
More carbon credits would have stopped this.
Looks like Blatten got flattend.
That link is so much better than the first.
Impressive landslide!
Reminds me of the "Missoula Floods" that occurred over a 5,000 year period. The floods were triggered by repeated failures of the ice dam on the Clark Fork River with the waters rushing across the landscape at speeds up to 80 mph. These megafloods, possibly numbering 40 to 100 over thousands of years, scoured the Columbia River Basin, carving out the Channeled Scablands, a unique landscape of eroded basalt, coulees, and dry falls. Notable features include the Grand Coulee, Palouse Falls, and the Dry Falls, once the world’s largest waterfall. Each flood carried immense volumes of water—some estimates suggest peak discharges of 400-700 million cubic feet per second—along with sediment, boulders, and ice.
So the Blatten event doesn't look so big now, does it?
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