Landslide

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A downward slope movement of a potentially lethal mixture of water, rocks, and mud, triggered by earthquakes, volcanoes, or weather events

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One does not understand why rocks and landslides do not plunge down these declivities daily.

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The balance all went for actual votes, and on a day of Democratic landslides they elected "Scotty" Doyle, the ex-tenpin setter, by nearly a thousand plurality--and beginning at five o'clock in the afternoon, and ending at three the next morning, Jurgis treated himself to a most unholy and horrible "jag." Nearly every one else in Packingtown did the same, however, for there was universal exultation over this triumph of popular government, this crushing defeat of an arrogant plutocrat by the power of the common people.

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RAWALAKOT -- At least 10 people were killed after a landslide hit their houses in Hajeera area of Rawalakot city of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ and K) on Saturday.

Landslide kills 10 in Rawalakot

Geologists from the Irrigation and Water Resources Management Department have inspected a hill at Thae Phyi Gone village on Yangon-Mawlamyine highway in Paung Township, Mon State after a landslide at Malatt hill of Kalama mountain range.

Government conducts survey of landslide site

PESHAWAR -- At least two people were missing when landslide occurred on Shahrah-e- Khaghan at different places that also stranded dozens of tourists in the valley.

Two missing, tourists stranded after landslide in Naran

They were killed in a landslide at Limgha village of Satyawati Rural Municiapality-4 of the district, and two in Lupek village.

Landslides kill 11 in Gulmi

Customary co-seismic landslide detection methods are conscientious, time demanding and very difficult to be adopted for regional scale landslides assessment.

Application of sub-pixel-based technique "orthorectification of optically sensed images and its correlation" for co-seismic landslide detection and its accuracy modification through the integration of various masks

SHANGLA -- The main road linking Chakesar with other parts of Shangla district was blocked after a landslide hit Karora area here on Tuesday night leaving motorists and commuters stranded.

Landslide blocks key Shangla road

The Office of the Vice President (OVP) vowed on Wednesday to continue helping the landslide victims in the Bicol region rebuild their lives.

OVP vows to continue helping Bicol landslide victims

The head of the geological planning expedition of the National Geological Survey Service of the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources, Aziz Garalov, told Trend on November 1 that the monitoring continues on the Bayil landslide zone in the Sabail district of Baku.

Activity registered in landslide zones of Baku

Police have recorded the statements of over 40 people in relation to the Bukit Kukus landslide.