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Massive glacier collapse triggers landslide that buries Swiss village
New Scientist ^ | May 28 2025 | Madeleine Cuff

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 ...


TOPICS: European Union; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: avalanche; blatten; ecoterrorism; ecoterrorists; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; madeleinecuff; newscientist; notineuropeanunion; switzerland
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I couldn't find a news source in Europe that wasn't hopelessly new age/climate hysteria, so I pulled this story.

Glaciers come and go. Who knew?

1 posted on 05/28/2025 7:41:23 PM PDT by texas booster
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To: texas booster
The after event of having a glacier melt into your town.


3 posted on 05/28/2025 7:45:23 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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The glacier obeying gravity.


4 posted on 05/28/2025 7:46:55 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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“Blatten” means “leaf” in German.


5 posted on 05/28/2025 7:49:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: texas booster

We all could die tomorrow. Or not.


6 posted on 05/28/2025 7:52:01 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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Riding high in April....buried in May


7 posted on 05/28/2025 7:55:03 PM PDT by xp38
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To: texas booster

And global warming alarmists are crying and yelling “climate change”, “climate change”, “climate change”, etc.


8 posted on 05/28/2025 7:56:25 PM PDT by gildafarrell (You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.)
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Blatten down the hatches!


9 posted on 05/28/2025 7:56:29 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (we know God is dead; they told us; but listening to you I wasn’t sure)
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To: texas booster

Couldn’t find a news site with English options which didn’t demand disabling ad blockers.


10 posted on 05/28/2025 7:57:27 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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Your link talks big about web cams, drones and videos of the landslide, but gives up one still pic.


11 posted on 05/28/2025 8:04:16 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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I was just watching a video about this somewhere today. Youtube maybe?


12 posted on 05/28/2025 8:07:58 PM PDT by ducttape45 (Jeremiah 17:9, "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?")
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I found a couple of YT videos, but choked on the insufferable climate hysteria.

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.

13 posted on 05/28/2025 8:20:46 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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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!


14 posted on 05/28/2025 8:21:59 PM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: Uncle Miltie

“Blatten down the hatches!”
LOL!
Blatten done been flattened


15 posted on 05/28/2025 8:22:08 PM PDT by doc maverick
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Blatten got flattened. As we say around here “you’ll get that”. Sorry for those that lost property.


16 posted on 05/28/2025 8:23:35 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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More carbon credits would have stopped this.


17 posted on 05/28/2025 8:24:10 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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Looks like Blatten got flattend.


18 posted on 05/28/2025 8:25:36 PM PDT by JME_FAN ("It's just the normal noises in here.")
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That link is so much better than the first.


19 posted on 05/28/2025 8:34:18 PM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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Wow, that narrator is insufferable. I watched the videos with sound turned off.

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?

20 posted on 05/28/2025 8:41:31 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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