Swiss authorities evacuated the town of Blatten days before the Birch glacier collapsed, but the resources that allowed them ...

Flooding fears eased at picturesque Swiss Alpine village buried by landslide - A huge mass of rock, ice and mud from the Birch glacier thundered into the Lötschental valley ...

Authorities say a small Alpine river dammed by a landslide that largely buried the Swiss village of Blatten is now flowing through the debris, and the level of a newly created lake that raised worries ...

Switzerland’s president said evacuees from a village whose homes and businesses were destroyed by a dramatic landslide caused ...

The net effect is that the Pacific Plate moves around a pole of rotation which is located about 2,000kms south-south- east of New Zealand. The southern end of the Alpine Fault leads off the coast ...

Eli, who is described as an "experienced climber," went on a hiking trip to Mitre Peak in the Milford Sound area of ... to go towards “New Zealand search and rescue and Alpine search and rescue ...

The ski area intends to open June 27, so for snow-hungry New Zealand residents, the waiting game persists. At the nearby Cardrona Alpine Resort, the ski season is expected to start earlier on June 14.

New Zealand's Alpine Fault is known for its regular timing of large earthquakes, which makes it a more straightforward choice for studying fault behavior. The fault is known to rupture at almost ...

One of three mountain climbers reported missing on New Zealand's highest peak, Aoraki, is a Northern California mountain guide and San Francisco Bay Area resident. Carlos "Kique" Romero is a ...

The project was the initiative of Harold Wellman — the pioneering geologist who famously discovered New Zealand's 370-mile-long Alpine Fault — and a few others working on the first geological ...

One of the world's most anticipated earthquakes is the next major surface rupture of the Alpine Fault in the South Island of New Zealand. With a 75% chance of it happening within the next 50 years, ...