ITN News
| Mar 30, 2013
Over 2000 people have become involved in rescue operations in Tibet after a massive landslide trapped 83 workers. According to Chinese state media, the landslide swept through an area of around three kilometers, burying a camp of workers who were ...
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CCTV News
| Oct 4, 2012
At least 16 children are confirmed dead and many more are missing after a landslide hit a school building in Yiliang county. Chinese broadcaster CCTV News reports that the school should have been empty for the national holiday. Rescue crews are fr...
Russia Today
| Sep 7, 2012
A series of earthquakes hit rural southwestern China on Friday, collapsing homes and triggering landslides. At least 50 people were killed, and the death toll is expected to rise.
Telegraph.co.uk
| Aug 7, 2012
Relentless rain submerged half of the sprawling Philippine capital Manila, sending emergency crews scrambling to rescue tens of thousands of stranded residents.
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 12, 2012
Heavy rain and floods have killed at least 20 people in southwestern Japan as tens of thousands are ordered to evacuate their homes on the island of Kyushu. Al Jazeera's Bhanu Bhatnagar reports.
KTN Kenya
| Jun 26, 2012
A deadly landslide in the Bududa district of Uganda buried three villages on Monday evening. Eighteen bodies have been recovered, but scores more are missing and hundreds have been left homeless after heavy rains caused the destruction of three vi...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Feb 8, 2012
Earthquake victims in central Philippines appealed for food and water after a magnitude 6.9 quake struck on Monday cutting off roads in the rural province of Negros Oriental.
Al Jazeera English
| Feb 7, 2012
Rescue workers in the Philippines are searching for dozens of people feared killed by a powerful earthquake that triggered landslides and toppled buildings on the heavily populated islands of Negros and Cebu.
Al Jazeera English
| Jul 29, 2011
Hundreds of South Korean troops have been deployed to search for land mines following mudslides. The mines were planted decades ago on Seoul's Mount Umyeon to thwart any possible land invasion by North Korean troops. More than 50 people have die...
Channel 4 News
| Jul 28, 2011
South Koreans were cautioned about rogue landmines and explosives after scores of deadly landslides in and around the capital swamped homes, a monastery and military sites after the heaviest rainfall in a century. Dozens of people have been killed.
— Dec 1, 2012 at 03:27 am
— Dec 14, 2011 at 03:41 am
Eighteen people are missing after a landslide triggered by heavy rain in southwest Colombia, Xinhua reported.
The landslide buried three houses in...
— Mar 27, 2012 at 08:40 am
A landslide or landslip is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rockfalls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows, which can occur in offshore, coastal and onshore environments. Although the action of gravity is the primary driving force for a landslide to occur, there are other contributing factors affecting the original slope stability. Typically, pre-conditional factors build up specific sub-surface conditions that make the area/slope prone to failure, whereas the actual landslide often requires a trigger before being released.
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