A huge mass of rock and ice from a glacier has thundered down a Swiss Alpine mountainside. Authorities say it covered with ...

On Wednesday, a landslide from the mountain side of Birch Glacier -- located in the Lötschental valley in northern Switzerland -- flattened homes in the Alpine town of Blatten after a large chunk of ...

Villagers in Blatten, Switzerland, were evacuated earlier this month after authorities warned a nearby glacier was on the ...

A deluge of rock and ice careered down the Swiss Alps near a village that authorities had evacuated earlier this month ...

A massive avalanche triggered by the collapse of the Birch Glacier buried much of the Swiss village of Blatten under ice, mud and rocks. The even was equivalent in force to a magnitude 3.1 earthquake, ...