Scientists are inducing zero-magnitude earthquakes beneath the Swiss Alps to understand why some tremors are more destructive ...

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Scientists in Switzerland are deliberately triggering tiny earthquakes deep in the Alps to study how quakes start. Using water injection and thousands of sensors, they aim to predict dangerous faults, ...

The shift of transalpine freight traffic from road to rail in Switzerland has stalled in the last two years. The access ...

Just like Hannibal in ancient times, Swiss engineers have conquered the Alps. More than 2,200 years after the commander from the ancient North African civilization of Carthage led his army of ...

The New Railway Link through the Alps (AlpTransit), is a Swiss federal project focused on building faster North-South rail links across the Swiss Alps by constructing base tunnels several hundred ...