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A Near-Real-Time Tool to Characterize Global Landslide Hazards
EOS   10 May 2018   World   World  
A new model that predicts the potential for rain to trigger landslides in near-real time. 2005 landslide in Conchita, Calif., killed 10 people. Credit: Mark Reid, USGS
<p>Unlike earthquakes, cyclones, volcanic eruptions, and other natural disasters that are observed in real time by worldwide networks of satellites and sensors, landslides and other types of mass movement are not consistently monitored on a global scale, despite ...
Landslide in Kamala destroys new villa construction
Phuket Gazette   15 September 2017   Thailand   Kamala region, Phuket  
<p>Landslide at a construction of a planned 9 villa complex in Kamala after heavy rains overnight and this morning. The landslide appears to have happened near Baan Hua Kuan, Kamala.</p>
Landslides kill 5 more
The Daily Star   26 July 2017   Bangladesh   Cox's Bazar  
Incessant rain for the last three days has made life miserable in the district. Photo: Anvil Chakma, Mohammad Ali Jinnat
<p>Monsoon torrential rain triggered fresh landslides in Cox's Bazar killing at least five people yesterday.<br>Heavy rainfall in the peak of monsoon has caused water-logging in the coastal and hill districts for the last few days disrupting usual business ...
China landslide: More than 90 missing as search continues
BBC NEWS   26 June 2017   China   Sichuan  
Rescuers and local residents use rope to move large boulders at the site of the deadly landslide
<p>More than 90 people remain missing after a huge landslide buried homes in a village in Sichuan province, south-western China.<br />Thousands of rescuers were deployed after some 40 homes were destroyed in Maoxian county, in what one local man said had been ...
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Landslides, flooding kill 147 people in Bangladesh and northeast India
ABC News   14 June 2017   Bangladesh   Rangamati  
PHOTO: Rescuers search through the mud in Bandarban, Bangladesh. (AP)
<p>At least 147 people have died in Bangladesh and neighbouring regions of northeast India after heavy rains triggered a series of landslides and extensive flooding, officials said.</p> <p>Densely populated Bangladesh is battered by storms, floods and landslides ...
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Sri Lanka faces more landslide risks as death toll rises to 151
Reuters   29 May 2017   Sri Lanka   Asia  
People walk through a landslide site during a rescue mission in Athwelthota village, in Kalutara, Sri Lanka May 28, 2017. REUTERS/Dinuka Li
<p>Landslides and floods in Sri Lanka have killed at least 151 people and the country faces the risk of more mudslides as torrential rains continue, officials said on Sunday.</p><p>More than 100 people are still missing after the worst rains in the Indian ...
Warning as three landslides hit coast of north Cornwall
BBC NEWS   08 April 2016   UK   Cornwall  
A large section of the cliff has fallen away at Treyarnon
<p>Chunks of cliff weakened by prolonged rainfall have collapsed at three separate sites.<br />Cornwall Council has warned of more possible landslides following the collapses along the north coast of Cornwall in the past week.<br />The cliff gave way near ...
Wildfire-charred California communities face serious landslide threat during stormy El Nino pattern
AccuWeather   14 January 2016   USA   California  
Mud and debris flow down hillsides burned in a recent brush fire after heavy rain from the first in a series of El Nino storms that passed over the area above Solimar Beach in Ventura, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Joel Angel Juárez)
<p>After a fire burns an area of land, the vegetation roots that help stabilize the soil are destroyed. Debris left behind can be pushed around with ease in heavy rain. Just like ashes after a bonfire, the debris is light.</p> <p>"Each one can bring a significant ...
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Dozens feared dead as hillside collapses on town in Guatemala
The Guardian   03 October 2015   Guatemala   Santa Catarina Pinula  
the landslide in Cambray near Guatemala City on 2/10/15
<p>The collapse of a hillside onto a town on the edge of Guatemala City has killed at least 26 people and left hundreds missing as rescue crews search for survivors in homes buried by dirt and sludge. Loosened by heavy rains, tons of dirt and trees tumbled ...