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WATCH: Explosive river of debris hurtles down Swiss mountain #shorts
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0:35Now PlayingSwiss researchers describe the Illgraben area as an “exceptionally active catchment” for “naturally occurring debris flows”. The power of such flows is clear to see in recent video captured after heavy rain.
Local resident Pierre-Emmanuel Zufferey recorded this spectacular “roar of the elements” on July 12, as mud, water and debris came thundering down the hillside channel.
Zufferey said around 15 minutes elapsed “between the intense precipitation and the arrival of water, stone, wood.”
There would be “no chance to escape” for anyone in the torrent’s path, he said.
According to the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, “While debris flows are rather rare elsewhere, Illgraben has an average of three to five per year. This makes the Illgraben a particularly useful research site.”
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