300 people had to run away from a mountain village. The destruction hung over her
Specialists’ warnings interrupted a quiet everyday life in the picturesque Lötschemental Valley in the Berne Alps. The immediate evacuation order for 300 people appeared as a result of specific fears that the powerful rock mass can drain to the village.
300 people had to run away from a mountain village. Rapid evacuation
Still at the weekend, the services took the first actions to secure the Lötschemental valley, and on Monday Activities were expanded to include the village of Blatten. At a critical moment, representatives of rescue ordered to pack the most important things and go to a safe place, leaving people less than One and a half hours for evacuation. It was done at loud crackling of cracking rocksand clouds of dust floated above the slopes of the mountains. Residents do not know if they will ever return to their homes.
There was a threat at one of the nearby hotels Twenty tourists, including the 49-year-old Polish citizen. The RMF24 portal determined that it started a new job at the local accommodation base, but after evacuation does not know if she will be able to return quickly there.
Just in case All trails in the area were closed several days earlyj. According to information provided by Alban Brigger from the Department of Natural Threats, in the worst script Down, up to five million cubic meters of rocks can collapse.
Similar disasters in Switzerland have already happened before
In Swiss media relations, three great tragedies related to landslides were cited. The oldest of them happened in 1806 in the region of SZPYZ, When forty million cubic meters of rock masses destroyed various villages and killed 457 people. In 1881 in ELM, Glarus canton Over a hundred people died as a result of the detachment of ten million cubic meters of rocks, which was mainly caused by many years of mining work. Whereas in Randa, in 1991, A similar cataclysm achieved an even larger scale, but this time there was no fatal and wounded victims.
The latest information shows that the current threat in Blatten results from the natural process, probably related to snow melting and the disappearance of eternal cold. Experts indicate that a relaxed substrate can be conducive to rapid movement of rock masses, which created extremely dangerous conditions in the entire Lötschemental valley.
Source: rmf24.pl
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