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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. The landslide at Surte in Sweden, 1950. It was a quick clay slide that killed one person.
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac song) " Landslide " is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, written and performed by Stevie Nicks. The song was first featured on the band's self-titled album Fleetwood Mac (1975). The original recording also appears on the compilation albums 25 Years – The Chain (1992), The Very Best of Fleetwood ...
Landslide classification. There have been known various classifications of landslides. Broad definitions include forms of mass movement that narrower definitions exclude. For example, the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology distinguishes the following types of landslides: fall (by undercutting) fall (by toppling)
September 7, 2024 at 11:00 AM. The deep landslides beneath the multimillion-dollar homes in Rancho Palos Verdes moved at an almost glacial pace, until they didn’t. This affluent coastal city in ...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a state of emergency after a landslide in the oceanside city of Rancho Palos Verdes caused power shutoffs for more than 200 homes and dozens of businesses.
The 2023 Greenland landslide was a massive event that occurred on June 17, causing a significant portion of land to collapse near the town of Nuugaatsiaq in northwestern Greenland. This catastrophic landslide was triggered by a series of geological factors, including the thawing of permafrost and increased glacial melt due to climate change .
2024 Enga landslide. On 24 May 2024, a landslide occurred in Mulitaka, Papua New Guinea. By 7 June, 12 bodies had been recovered, [3] with thousands more buried and presumed dead, though estimates of the death toll vary greatly, with some estimating that only 160 had died.
A landslide of mud, snow, rock, and trees 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) long, 200 metres (656 ft) wide, and 60 metres (197 ft) deep buried two-thirds of the valley, creating a thermal lake and burying or inundating many geysers, thermal pools, and waterfalls. [ 131 ] 11 Jun 2007. Chittagong, Bangladesh.