Lalrp.org: 
The centuries-old village straddles German- and Romansch-speaking elements of the japanese Graubunden area, sitting southwest of Davos at an altitude of about 1,150 meters (about 3,800 ft). As we speak it has beneath 100 residents.
The mountain and the rocks on it have been transferring for the reason that final Ice Age, native officers say. However measurements indicated a “sturdy acceleration over a big space” in current days, and “as much as 2 million cubic meters of rock materials will collapse or slide within the coming seven to 24 days,” officers mentioned.
Over the past century, the village itself has moved a number of centimeters (inches) every year, however the motion sped up during the last 20 years. The landslide has been transferring about 1 meter (about 3 ft) per yr. Geological surveys counsel the scenario has develop into much more precarious.
Christian Gartmann, a member of the disaster administration board within the city of Albula, which counts Brienz in its municipality, mentioned specialists estimate there’s a 60% probability that the rock will fall in smaller chunks, which can not attain the village or the valley. The landslide may additionally transfer slowly.
However there’s additionally a ten% probability that the entire 2-million-cubic meter mass might tumble down, threatening lives, property and the village itself, he mentioned.
“We hope that the village stays intact,” Gartmann mentioned by cellphone. “We will’t remove the likelihood that it (the rock) will come down. … It may injury the village or destroy it.”
Gartmann mentioned glacier soften had affected the precariousness of the rocks over millennia however that melting glaciers because of “man-made” local weather change in current many years wasn’t an element.
Specialists concluded {that a} managed explosion to set off a rock slide was too harmful as a result of it could require drilling beneath the rock — itself a hazardous operation, Gartmann mentioned. Erecting an enormous pile of sand or a wall to attempt to maintain again the rocks additionally wasn’t thought of possible, he mentioned: The wall must be a minimum of 70 meters (230 ft) excessive to guard the village.
Most of the evacuees had been anticipated to stick with household or buddies, although native leaders have acquired affords from involved neighbors to supply non permanent housing. he mentioned. On the present “orange” alert stage, nevertheless, livestock had been to be left behind.
