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The 2024 Kuala Lumpur sinkhole, also known as the Jalan Masjid India sinkhole, is a 8-metre (26 ft) deep sinkhole which formed in Jalan Masjid India in Kuala Lumpur on the 23rd of August 2024, possibly caused by sewage pipe ruptures and other geographical faults. [3][4] Its collapse has caused one victim to disappear for more than a week. [5][6 ...
Banjir Malaysia 2021–2022. Date. 16 December 2021 – 19 January 2022. (1 month and 3 days) Location. Selangor (notably Klang, Petaling and Hulu Langat District), Kuala Lumpur, Pahang and Perak; Negeri Sembilan, Malacca, Kelantan and Terengganu (limited) Sabah (from 30 December onwards) Also known as. December 2021 Central Malaysian floods ...
The Red Lake sinkhole in Croatia. A sinkhole is a depression or hole in the ground caused by some form of collapse of the surface layer. The term is sometimes used to refer to doline, enclosed depressions that are also known as shakeholes, and to openings where surface water enters into underground passages known as ponor, swallow hole or swallet.
The Petronas Towers (Malay: Menara Berkembar Petronas), also known as the Petronas Twin Towers and colloquially the KLCC Twin Towers, are an interlinked pair of 88-story supertall skyscrapers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, standing at 451.9 metres (1,483 feet). From 1998 to 2004, they were officially designated as the tallest buildings in the world ...
A Malaysia-Thailand boundary stone at the Bukit Kayu Hitam-Danok border crossing. Malaysian boundary wall near Padang Besar, Malaysia. The 658-kilometre Malaysia-Thailand land boundary consists of 552-kilometre section on land running along the watershed of several mountain ranges in northern Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand, and 106 kilometres running along the thalweg of the Golok ...
Sinking cities are urban environments that are in danger of disappearing due to their rapidly changing landscapes. The largest contributors to these cities becoming unlivable are the combined effects of climate change (manifested through sea level rise , intensifying storms, and storm surge), land subsidence , and accelerated urbanization . [ 2 ]
Kuala Lumpur is a Malay term that translates to "muddy confluence" and is located at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers which flow into the Selangor River. [83] The Red Arrows over the city in 2016. Located in the centre of Selangor state, Kuala Lumpur was a territory of Selangor State Government.
2020–2021 Malaysian floods is an event when several states in Malaysia were flooded in late 2020 and early 2021. Floods caused about tens of thousands of people to be evacuated to evacuation centers. The floods also claimed several lives, causing almost all types of land transport in the areas affected by the floods to be cut off.