{"id":2509,"date":"2014-11-28T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T12:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/?p=2509"},"modified":"2023-12-06T11:03:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T10:03:49","slug":"mudslide-crashed-into-a-small-building-in-the-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/mudslide-crashed-into-a-small-building-in-the-swiss-alps\/","title":{"rendered":"Mudslide crashed into a small building  in the Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A three-storey appartment building \u00a0was destroyed by a landslide on November 16<sup>th<\/sup> 2014 in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. Two women were\u00a0killed.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At\u00a02:30 pm, a wall -weakened by the heavy rainfalls-\u00a0located 50m away and above the building\u00a0broke, releasing 500 m3 to\u00a01\u2019000 m3 of muddy\u00a0material\u00a0in\u00a0the Davesco-Soragno village, near of Lugano. Hundred\u00a0rescuers accompagnied by\u00a0sniffer dogs worked\u00a0during the\u00a0night in the rubble to find the victims. Besides two fatalities, one man was\u00a0seriously injured, three persons were\u00a0slightly injured and one person kept uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>Strong rain precipitations occurred since at least ten days\u00a0before the event on the area of Lugano. This landslide occurred 11km away from the previous disaster\u00a0where\u00a0two persons were killed 11 days ago.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a title=\"Deadly mudslides engulf homes in Switzerland and Italy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30077272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc<\/a>, <a title=\"Deux morts dans un \u00e9boulement \u00e0 Davesco-Soragno, pr\u00e8s de Lugano\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rts.ch\/info\/suisse\/6306829-deux-morts-dans-un-eboulement-a-davesco-soragno-pres-de-lugano.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rts<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Les intemp\u00e9ries au Tessin s\u00e8ment la mort\" href=\"https:\/\/www.24heures.ch\/suisse\/Un-glissement-de-terrain-fait-deux-morts-au-Tessin\/story\/10944949\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">24heures<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Die Opfer lagen unter meterhohem Schutt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.20min.ch\/schweiz\/news\/story\/13065925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">20minuten<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2516\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno1-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Davesco-Soragno - Keystone\/Gabriele Putzu\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno1-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno1.jpg 587w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <em>Keystone\/Gabriele Putzu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2515\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno2-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"Davesco-Soragno 2 - Keystone\/Gabriele Putzu\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno2-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno2.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/a>\u00a0<em>Keystone\/Gabriele Putzu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2514\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno3-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Davesco-Soragno 3 - Keystone\/Gabriele Putzu\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno3-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Keystone\/Gabriele Putzu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2510\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Davesco-Soragno, event location \/ Copyright: swisstopo\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/files\/2014\/11\/Davesco-Soragno.jpg 881w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<em>Copyrights Swisstopo<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A three-storey appartment building \u00a0was destroyed by a landslide on November 16th 2014 in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland. Two women were\u00a0killed. At\u00a02:30 pm, a wall -weakened by the heavy &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,75131],"tags":[75200],"class_list":{"0":"post-2509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog","7":"category-hazard-news","8":"tag-hazard-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6119,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2509\/revisions\/6119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/risk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}