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Geotechnical Egineering News tagged with [deadly landslide]

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At least 15 dead after landslide at Myanmar jade mine
EYEWITNESS NEWS   14 July 2018   Myanmar  
<p>YANGON - A landslide killed at least 15 people in northern Myanmar on Saturday, with 45 others injured after the latest disaster in the Hpakant jade mining region, a local official said.<br />Miners searching for the precious mineral were buried by muddy ...
Search for survivors after Afghanistan landslide destroys 300 homes
<p>A landslide destroyed nearly 300 homes, killing at least 10 people, as it swept through an Afghan village where residents were using only basic digging tools to search for survivors, officials said.</p> <p>A mountain lake in Panjsher, a province north of ...
Filed under: Natural Hazards
Kozhikode landslide kills four, leaves 10 missing; heavy rain destroys 270 homes in Kerala district
FIRSTPOST   14 June 2018   India   Kerala  
Kerala landslides
<p>Thiruvananthapuram: Four people, including three children, died and at least 10 others were reported missing after a landslide struck a remote village in Kozhikode district on Thursday, as heavy rainfall continued to batter northern Kerala.<br />With this, ...
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10 killed in landslide in Mizoram
Deccan Herald   05 June 2018   India   Mizoram  
Four persons were rescued from the building, police said, adding that one of them suffered injuries
<p>Ten people, including six women, were killed and one person was injured when a building was swept away by a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Lunglawn area of south Mizoram's Lunglei town, police said on Tuesday.</p>
Eleven missing, 14 injured in Indonesia landslide
News24   22 February 2018   Indonesia  
Eleven missing, 14 injured in Indonesia landslide (Eranga Jayawardena, AP)
<p>Jakarta - Eleven people are missing and 14 have been injured following a landslide on Thursday that cascaded down the terraced slopes of a rice field on the Indonesian island of Java, officials said.</p>
13 die after massive landslide throws bus into abyss in Colombia (PHOTO, VIDEO)
RT Question More   22 January 2018   Colombia  
13 die after massive landslide throws bus into abyss in Colombia (PHOTO, VIDEO)
<p>At least 13 people died when the bus they were traveling on was pushed by a landslide into a deep abyss off a highway in southwestern Colombia, authorities announced. Rescuers only managed to reach it the next day.</p> <p>About 5,000 cubic meters (176,000 ...
13 killed in Southern California deluge as rivers of mud wipe out homes
CNN   10 January 2018   USA   California  
Deadly mudslides in Southern California / CNN
<p>(CNN)Heavy rains unleashed destructive rivers of mud and debris in Southern California on Tuesday -- leaving at least 13 people dead, destroying homes and spurring rescues as the flooding forced heavily traveled roads to close.</p> <p>Santa Barbara County ...
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Chile: Landslide destroys village and kills at least five
BBC NEWS   17 December 2017   Chile  
The area in Chile's lake district is sparsely populated
<p>A landslide caused by torrential rain has killed at least five people in southern Chile and has destroyed dozens of houses.<br />Fifteen people are missing in the remote village of Villa Santa Luc&iacute;a in the country's lake region, popular with tourists.<br ...
Tanjung Bungah landslide: ‘DOE rejected developer’s application’
The Star   23 October 2017   Malaysia   Tanjung Bungah  
<p>PETALING JAYA: The developer’s application to build a residential project at the site of a massive landslide that took the lives of nine construction workers was rejected by the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry as it was located near a quarry ...