An important mountain shift occurred on Wednesday, May 28 at the Canton of Valais in Switzerland. Millions of tons of rocks have won, causing destruction from the town of Blatten.
The city had been evacuated nine days before, because landslide was expected. In total, 300 people had been protected.
At the end of Wednesday afternoon, the situation was still confused. The authorities have not yet communicated in possible victims. What is certain is that material damage is considerable. According to local media, emergency services are on the site.
An earthquake of 3.1 on the Richter scale
A river was also completely covered by the fall of the rocks and this collapse even caused an earthquake, evaluated to 3.1 on the Richter scale.
The images are very impressive.
The landslide occurred at the level of the birch glacier, abused of global warming. He advanced 10 meters a day towards the town. The fusion of snow between the average and high mountains has also been able to cause water flows, even more destabilizing everything in recent weeks.
Tuesday around 6 pm and Wednesday around 4 am, two-year collapses were produced in the glacier, said Keystone-Ats news agency. The town was directly in sight.
Source: BFM TV
