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News
Flood events June/July 2024 in Switzerland
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Recurrent precipitation in June and July 2024 led to flooding in many regions of Switzerland. Heavy rainfall and storms in the second half of June caused rivers and streams to rise rapidly, particularly in Valais and Ticino. Floods and debris flows caused extensive damage to settlements and infrastructure. To date, 10 people have lost their lives and several others are still missing. Dealing with and coming to terms with these events will take a long time. More information here.
In the image shown above, the village of Fontana (Maggia valley) - ©swisstopo 2024
Before & After event comparison
Village of Fontana (Maggia valley)
Village of Sorte (Grisons)
Val d'Anniviers (Valais)
For natural hazard and risk analyses, the following ecorisQ tools can be used:
BankforNET - Bank erosion assessment tool
This tool aims to support experts in the quantification of bank erosion hazards and the effects of biological measures.
SlideforMAP - Shallow landslide simulation at regional scale
SlideforMAP is a probabilistic model to assess shallow landslide probability on a regional scale with an explicit focus on vegetation scenarios.
Impressive Bergsturz in Switzerland
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On Sunday 14 April 2024, a Bergsturz with more than 1 million m3 occurred on the north face of Piz Scerscen (Switzerland). Although this event occurred spontaneously after several days with high temperatures, nobody got hurt. Since a lot of water has been observed in the failure zone, melting of snow and ice very probably played an important role. The runout distance was 5.4 km, which coressponds to a energy line angle of 15° (following the travel path) and 16° (following a straight line) - typical values for such events. An impressive movie showing the release, transit and deposit area can be found here (commented in the beautiful Rumantsch - the fourth Swiss national language).
With our new rockfall runout simulation tool named RockavELA, we try to predict the propagation of such events.
Two new tools
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We launched bèta versions of two news tools, one for shallow landslide hazard assemsment called SlideforMAP and the second for streambank erosion called BankforMAP. SlideforMAP is a probabilistic model to assess shallow landslide probability on a regional scale with an explicit focus on vegetation scenarios. BankforMAP is a two-dimensional model that computes the probability of streambank erosion at the catchment scale due to a rainfall event and can also calculate transport and deposition of large wood along streams.
