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20 feared missing after powerful Japan earthquake causes landslides
CBC News, YouTube   06 September 2018   Japan   Hokkaido  
The quake triggered landslides, bringing down several houses. (AFP/Getty Images)
<p>A powerful earthquake rocked Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido early Thursday, triggering landslides that crushed homes, knocking out power and forcing a nuclear power plant to switch to a backup generator.</p><p>The magnitude 6.7 earthquake ...
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Highway 1 in Big Sur opens more than a year after California landslide
CNN   19 July 2018   USA   California  
<p>(CNN) A portion of California's scenic Highway 1 reopened Wednesday more than a year after a major landslide buried the road, transportation officials said.<br />The landslide at Mud Creek in 2017 heaped six million tons of rock and dirt on about a quarter ...
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Next Manawatū Gorge rock fall could be 170 times larger than two previous slips
Stuff.co.nz   13 September 2017   New Zealand   Manawatu Gorge  
The NZ Transport Agency expects as much as 630,000 cubic metres to drop at the Manawatū Gorge. A slip in April was 3500cum.
<p>The Manawatū Gorge could experience a rock fall 170 times larger than the two slips that caused the state highway to close in April.<br />The NZ Transport Agency expects as much as 630,000 cubic metres to drop at Kerry's wall, near the Ashhurst end, which ...
China landslide leaves at least 140 missing in Sichuan
BBC NEWS   24 June 2017   China   Asia  
China landslide leaves at least 140 missing in Sichuan
<p>More than 140 people are feared buried in a landslide in Sichuan province in south-western China, state media say.<br /><br />About 40 homes were destroyed in Xinmo village in Maoxian county, after the side of a mountain collapsed at about 06:00 local time ...
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Earthquake in Greenland triggers fatal landslide-induced tsunami
Temlor.net   19 June 2017   Greenland   Nuugaatsiag  
his picture, taken by the Arctic Command shows part of the landslide that triggered the deadly tsunami.
<p>Over the weekend, a M=4.1 earthquake on Greenland&rsquo;s western coast caused a massive landslide, triggering a tsunami that inundated small settlements on the coast. At this stage, four people are feared to have died, nine others were injured, and 11 ...
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Big Sur coast has grown 13 acres from new landslide
Mercury News   31 May 2017   USA   California  
Geological Survey scientists took aerial photos of May 20’s Mud Creek landslide in Big Sur and used software to transform photos into a 3D image.(Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey)
<p>New aerial photos of the massive new Big Sur landslide show that the California coast has expanded by a stunning 13 acres &mdash; the size of 10 football fields.</p> <p>The historic three-dimensional images of our sudden growth spurt &mdash; an exhilarating ...
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Nobody Heard or Saw This Landslide. What’s the Big Deal?
bigthink   24 March 2017   USA   Alaska  
(POLAR GEOSPATIAL CENTER)
<p>On October 17, 2015, a rainy night to begin with, a huge tsunami cresting at 600 feet barreled through the darkness of the remote Taan fjord in Alaska. It stripped away forests on both sides of the fjord, and dragged an iceberg out into Icy Bay on the coast. ...
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The terrifying moment of a landslide in Bolivia's capital (Video)
The Wall Street Journal   21 February 2017   Bolivia   Americas  
Landslide in La Paz, Bolivia (source: The Wall Street Journal)
<p>The terrifying moment of a landslide in Bolivia's capital.</p><p>Footage captured the moment homes were destroyed in a landslide in La Paz, Bolivia, on Wednesday. The landslide rolled off the mountainside into the Auquisamaña area of the Bolivian capital.</p><p>No ...
Enormous Landslide Detected in Alaska
Gizmodo   04 July 2016   USA   Alaska  
The Lamplugh Glacier rock avalanche (Image: Paul Swanstrom/Mountain Flying Service)
<p>An extraordinarily large landslide has been discovered near Glacier Bay in southeast Alaska. Aerial photos show a snow-capped mountain with a huge chunk taken out of it&mdash;and a debris field that extends for nearly seven miles.</p>
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How a huge landslide shaped Zion National Park
Phys Org   26 May 2016   USA   Utah  
This view of Zion Canyon in Utah's Zion National Park shows the flat valley floor created when part of the peak named the Sentinel collapsed in a gigantic landslide.
<p>A Utah mountainside collapsed 4,800 years ago in a gargantuan landslide known as a "rock avalanche," creating the flat floor of what is now Zion National Park by damming the Virgin River to create a lake that existed for 700 years.</p> <p> </p>