Birch glacier caused an avalanche ice, snow, water and stone as leading edge crumbled
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A large part of a Swiss Alps glacier exploded from the mountain side, sending stone, mud and ice crashing the village Blatten.
Warning the authorities in a potential collapse of birch glucier in weeks today as cracks appear on the ice. Last month, villagers and livestock were evacuated from blatten, sitting in the valley at the bottom of the glacier and were at home with about 300 people.
Webcam and drone images from 28 can show many plumes spreading the alpine field while the glacier collapses, with many muds and stones consisting of slopes and stones that make up the stones and most villages.
No reports of casualties, even if a person reported lost, according to a press conference made by a neighboring village on 28 May. The village of blatten is currently buried under the trash. Glacier collapse caused an earthquake measuring 3.1 on the richter scale, according to seismic data.
Images from the site suggested that in addition to the village, many swathes in the forest destroy and garbage blocks adjacent flooding in the area.
“The nature is stronger than man. The mountains know that we have experienced an amazing event,” as the councilor Albert Rösti was in the press conference, According to the Swiss Outlet Blick.
The alps glaciers have become more unstable as rising at world temperature. In Switzerland, the glaciers lost 10 percent in their number between 2022 and 2023 alone, shown by official statistics.
Melt glaciers can cause rockfalls, rock and ice avalanches and garbage flowing in the valleys below. Research suggested Small rocks and landslides are increasing by the Alps due to climate change.
However, further investigation is needed before it is possible to explain exactly what is happening in blatten, as Mylène Jacquemart In Eth Zurich in Switzerland, including examination of how many glaciers are broken, and why. “Clear, events like one blatten – At this point is a complex Cascade process – It is rare to be unique, and so count changes to them is not easy to cause, “he said.
Discovering changes in large and severity of many landslides is tricky, added by Jacquemart.
“Changing climate change in high rural regions (more to melt in water, more hot-free,” it’s like a habit of the risk of happening in each year? This way, we haven’t seen each other. This way, we have never seen events found in each year?
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