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Montecito suffered a devastating mudslide in 2018. Now the community has rallied to try to make sure the same thing will ...
This combo picture shows the village of Blatten photographed on Sunday, May 18, 2025, left, and a view captured one day after a massive debris avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch ...
At least two more Swiss villages are under threat of being wiped out by floodwaters after one hamlet was almost completely buried under millions of tonnes of debris following a glacial collapse.
A massive avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier buried much of the Swiss village of Blatten under ice, mud and rocks. The even was equivalent in force to a magnitude 3.1 ...
Although the glacier’s full-on collapse wasn’t a certainty until it happened, there were plenty of warning signs that helped prevent large-scale loss of life. A major landslide from Nesthorn Mountain ...
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the village of Blatten after suffering a mudslide, in Switzerland ... May 18, 2025, left, and a view captured one day after a massive debris ...
A massive glacier collapse in the Swiss Alps has devastated the village of Blatten, with millions of cubic meters of ice and debris causing severe flooding and destruction. This disaster, which ...
An aerial view shows the destruction of Blatten, Switzerland, Thursday, May 29, 2025, one day after a massive debris avalanche, triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier, swept down.
An increase in seismicity—marked by frequent tremors—was observed recently at Alaska's Iliamna Volcano, which last erupted in ...
MISSOULA -- The avalanche that rocketed down the west face of Mount Jumbo on Friday afternoon was probably going 120 mph when it obliterated Fred Allendorf and Michel Colville’s house ...
The skier and his climbing partner, who was snowboarding, were caught as they descended a slope on the West Buttress Route, ...