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Washington State Workers to Install Equipment to Monitor Slow-Moving Landslide
Government Technology   06 December 2018   USA   Washington State  
Large containers line a road below the ridge, an effort to help block rocks and debris from reaching the highway. AP/ELAINE THOMPSON
<p>Geologists say the 20-acre, 200-foot-deep mass could continue sliding for years, if not decades, and will likely fall bit by bit into the quarry pit owned by Columbia Asphalt. It will not become a fast-moving, catastrophically damaging landslide, they say.</p> <p><br ...
Experts warn Bondo landslide danger may not be over
SWI   28 August 2017   Switzerland   Graubuenden  
The mountain village of Bondo in the Val Badosca in canton Graubünden was hit by a huge rock and mudslide on August 23 that began high on the 3,369-metre Piz Cengalo mountain (Keystone)
<p>Geologists say the Piz Cengalo mountain on the Swiss-Italian border, which collapsed last week causing a huge landslide in the Swiss village of Bondo, remains unstable. The dangers are preventing locals from returning and are hindering the clean-up operation. ...
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One year after fatal landslide, Mesa County issues warning to public
The Denver Post   26 May 2015   USA   Mesa County  
An aerial view of the Mesa County mudslide that was photographed on Monday, May 26, 2014. (AAron Ontiveroz, Denver Post file)
<p>One year after a landslide in Mesa County near Grand Junction that killed three people, new concerns have led officials to initiate a Level One response.</p><p>A Level One, under the Emergency Action Plan, means something has changed that requires a heightened ...
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