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Despite strong inflows, the water level in the glacier lake did not rise in the course of the morning. The river Lütschine became…
Over 300 ha of forest was burned to the ground in one of Switzerland's largest documented forest fires which occured above Leuk…
On 18 April 1991, around 15 million m3 of rock slid down to the valley near the town of Randa which is located in the Matter Valley.…
The Alps arose between 50 - 5 million years ago. A mountain range of this age is considered young in geological terms and is characterised by…
The Schattenbach avalanche near Walenstadt in the canton of St. Gallen is an infamous avalanche which is shown here plunging down the valley as a vast…
A snow avalanche is the rapid mass movement of deposited snow that exceeds 100 m3 in volume and 50 metres in lenght. Based on how they move,…
In the late February 1999 a state of emergency prevailed in many regions of the Alps. Within a period of just five weeks, the snow…
A tsunami consists of a series of water waves, mostly caused by seaquakes and undersea landslides, which spread rapidly on oceans and lakes and cause…
