The residents of two hamlets in Blatten, Switzerland, were able to visit their homes following a landslide that devasted the ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing ...

A devastating landslide, triggered by the Birch Glacier collapse, buried Blatten, Switzerland, prompting evacuations but ...

The destruction of the village served as a stark reminder to residents that dramatic collapses are becoming more frequent in ...

According to the head of the Valais Natural Hazards Office, the cone of debris from the landslide in Blatten is over 100 ...

Check dams set up on the water from the Lonza river flows over the mud and stone, after the formation of a lake by the last houses of the village of Blatten, Switzerland, Saturday, May 31 ...

GENEVA (AP) — A small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried ... as well as livestock, from Blatten. Switzerland’s president said on Friday that the government was looking ...

A massive landslide triggered by the collapse of part of the Birch Glacier buried nearly 90 percent of the Catholic village of Blatten in Switzerland's Lötschental Valley on May 28. All 300 residents ...

Seasonal avalanches and landslides tend to ... are used to this, and Switzerland has been extensively risk-mapped. One of the reasons villages like Blatten are where they are is precisely because ...