A large mass of rock slid down a mountainside above a Swiss village that was evacuated last month, stopping just short of the settlement, authorities say.
General view of part of the village of Brienz-Brinzauls below the rockfall"Brienzer Rutsch", in Switzerland, Friday, June 16, 2023. On Thursday night, a large part of the rock masses fell towards the village. The rock masses just missed the village and left behind a meter-high deposit on the main road near the school building. No one was injured since the village was evacuated on May 12.
Brienz was evacuated on May 12 after geologists warned that the Alpine rock looming over the village could break loose. In recent days, local officials said rock movements on the slope were accelerating. About two-thirds of the rock — at an initial estimate, somewhere between 1.2 and 1.5 million cubic meters — appears to have come down the slope on Thursday night, geologist Stefan Schneider said at a news conference.“We can say that today is one of the best days since the evacuation,” said Daniel Albertin, the head of the local council. “The wait for the mountain was long. But now the mountain has come down as we envisioned, and ...
“The people of Brienz will still have to be a bit patient before they can move back,” Albertin said. “We have to carry out further evaluations before we can give them enough security to be able to move back to their village and continue living or working there.”
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