Disaster Risk Reduction, Hazard Assesment, and Risk Analysis
Rockslide on snow in Val Sterm (GR), Switzerland, on 15 March 2016. At 6 PM on 15 March 2016, a 200’000 m3 rockslide occurred in the unoccupied valley Val Sterm near the …
Rockslide in Val Sterm, Graubünden Read MoreRiver damming by rockfall in Wohlusen (LU), Switzerland, on 11 January 2016. At 3 AM on 11 January 2016, a 5’000 cubic meters rockfall fell from a 50 m height cliff in …
Large rockfall in Wolhusen Read MoreTwo severe storms at one day interval have caused damages due to debris flow in Scuol (GR), lower Engadine, at the end of July . During two days of high precipitations in …
Bad weather in Graubünden, July 2015 Read MoreBad weather caused damages and evacuations in Western Switzerland in early May due to floods, debris flow and landlsides. Strong precipitations occurred on Western Switzerland in the beginning of May …
Bad weather in Western Switzerland, May 2015 Read MoreA three-storey appartment building was destroyed by a landslide on November 16th 2014 in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. Two women were killed. At 2:30 pm, a wall -weakened by the heavy …
Mudslide crashed into a small building in the Swiss Alps Read MoreA two-storey house located in a large wooded area was destroyed by a landslide on November 5th 2014 in the canton of Ticino. The two occupants, a mother and her …
Landslide destroy a house in Swiss Alps Read MoreA train of the Rhaetian Railway derailed into a ravine after hitting a landslide felt on the track on August 13th 2014. Eleven persons were injured, five of them seriously. …
Train derailed due to a landslide in Swiss Alps Read MoreMartin Franz (PhD student in our group) explains in the La Côte newspaper his researches about tsunami in lakes. Please find the article in the “Media” section.
Media: Geneva Lake victim of a tsunami? Read MoreThe village of Abi Barik (Badakhshan Province, North East Afghanistan) was destroyed by two consecutives landslides on May 2 2014 (DailyMail). About 1000 houses were affected and 300 of them …
Badakhshan landslides, Afghanistan Read MoreThe area named “Steelhead Haven” was engulfed by a major landslide on March 22, 2014, in Oso, Washington, United States (SeattleTimes). 41 fatalities (Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office) and 2 missed persons were …
Massive landslide in the United States – Oso (Washington State) Read MoreImportant floods occurred in Central and Southeast Europe in middle May 2014, affecting four countries (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Romania) and causing at least 62 fatalities and more than …
Southeast and Central Europe floods Read MoreA 100 tons, 40 m3, rock block struck a former sheepfold transformed into a chalet in the village of Isola in the night on February 23th 2014, in the French …
Rock crushes a chalet in French Alps Read More