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 ...

The huge crack in the crust is the Alpine Fault and the uplift rate of the ... substantial distances is a rock avalanche. Anyone in New Zealand on 14 December 1991 must surely remember the ...

There are San Andreas faults in many places. They happen where two rigid continental masses slide past each other at fairly rapid pace. The San Andreas fault separates (‘connect’ would be the ...

The search for a British hiker who vanished in New Zealand more than a week ago has ... climbers as well as an aerial search of the entire area using two helicopters and thermal imagery.

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.

the Alpine Fault in New Zealand, the Denali Fault in Alaska, and the Philippine Fault which generated a magnitude 7.8 earthquake on July 16, 1990. Seismic record of the magnitude 7.7 Myanmar ...

New Zealand is one of the few places on Earth where you can touch a fault – the Alpine Fault ... topography and soil in the epicentre area. On the continents, all quakes are by definition ...

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 ...

New Zealand’s Alpine Fault is an ideal fault for studying earthquake behavior because of its regular timing. This fault is known to rupture every 250 years. By utilizing this technique on the Alpine ...