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Evacuation and search and rescue efforts were hindered by the damaged access roads to Kasimpar, along with continuing heavy rains. [8] 600 personnel accompanied by search and rescue dogs were deployed. [9]
Shortly after the disaster, Indonesia's President Joko Widodo visited the area with his wife, Iriana Widodo.He also ordered Indonesia's National Soldier to evacuate the remaining citizens in these particular area: Sletri Village, Sampang Village, and Pawesen Village.
A landslide near Cusco, Peru, in 2018 A NASA model has been developed to look at how potential landslide activity is changing around the world. Animation of a landslide in San Mateo County, California Landslips Noire River (Rivière Noire), Saint-Alban landslide 1894, Quebec, Canada [1] [2]
The province of South Sulawesi experiences flooding annually. Due to development of a low-pressure area in the Timor Sea coupled with increased humidity in the wet season, the rainfall levels in the area increased significantly, with the Meteorology, Climatology, and Geophysical Agency issuing an extreme weather warning between 21 and 26 January 2019. [3]
Rhine cutting through Flims rockslide debris. The Flims rockslide happened about 10,000 years ago (8000 BC) in eastern Switzerland. It is the largest known landslide in the Alps, [1] [2] and the biggest worldwide whose effects are still visible, moving some 12 km 3 (2.9 cu mi) of rock, about 300 times that of the historic Swiss Goldau landslide.
Father's Organic Farm is an organic farm located 15 kilometres outside of Batang Kali, Selangor, a town on the foothills of the Titiwangsa Range, approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) north of Kuala Lumpur and roughly 15 kilometres (9 mi) west of Genting Highlands in the neighbouring state of Pahang.
A natural disaster is the highly harmful impact on a society or community following a natural hazard event. The term "disaster" itself is defined as follows: "Disasters are serious disruptions to the functioning of a community that exceed its capacity to cope using its own resources.
On 2 May 2014, a pair of mudslides occurred in Argo District, Badakhshan Province, Afghanistan. [citation needed] The death toll is uncertain, the number of deaths the number of deaths is believed to be at least 350 and no more than 2,700. [4]