Landslide
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Landslides, also known as landslips, rockslips, rockfalls, mudslides, mudslips or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mu
A landslide near Cusco, Peru, in 2018
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abandoned railway tunnel,Taguchi Railroad [ja],Japan
Noire River (Rivière Noire), Saint-Alban landslide 1894, Quebec, Canada
The Mameyes Landslide, in the Mameyes neighborhood of barrio Portugués Urbano in Ponce, Puerto Rico, was caused by extensive accumulation of rains and, according to some sources, lightning. It buried more than 100 homes.
Natural disaster
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A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community brought by a natural phenomenon or hazard. Some examples of natural hazards include avalanches, droughts, earthquakes, floods, h
Landslide
…trigger landslides. Landslide mitigation describes the policy and practices for reducing the risk of human impacts of landslides, reducing the risk of natural disaster. Landslides occur when the slope (or a portion of it) undergoes some processes that change its condition from stable to unstable. This is essentially…
Economic loss risk for six natural disasters: tropical cyclones, droughts, earthquakes, floods, landslides, and volcanoes.
A landslide in San Clemente, California in 1966
A powder snow avalanche in the Himalayas near Mount Everest.
San Francisco was devastated by an earthquake in 1906