Part of the summit of a mountain in the Austrian state of Tyrol has collapsed.
Rocks started falling Sunday from Fluchthorn, a nearly 3,400 meter mountain in the Silvretta Alps on the border between Switzerland and Austria, in an incident state geologists have said was caused by thawing permafrost. No one was injured by the rockfall, according to Alpine police.
“Water can penetrate deep into rock masses through newly opened clefts, which were previously plugged with permafrost ice,” she told CNN, explaining that this can lead rocks to fracture. There isn’t enough data to say whether rockfalls have increased in recent years, as it is usually only large events that are well-documented, said Phillips. Scientists rely on information from the public, she added, and many rockfalls happen in remote areas.
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