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The landslide covered an area of 300 metres (980 ft) from an altitude of 70 metres (230 ft). [13] The collapsed slope directly impacted the grounds of all three campsites and produced a field of rubble 30 metres (98 ft) high, covering an area of 1.21 acres (0.49 ha).
1 January 2021 – Two landslides occurred at the Segamat-Kuantan Highway, near Pekan, Pahang. 12 January 2021 – A landslide occurred at Padawan , Sarawak . A grandmother, together with her daughter, saved her four grandchildren from being buried alive when part of their house collapsed in Kampung Garung at 40 kilometres of Jalan Puncak ...
Some portions of the Federal Highway, New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE), and the Karak Highway were exposed to landslides and flooding, which made them entirely impassable. [45] At the Karak Highway, 450 motorists were stranded for two days before they were rescued. [46] 226 people were rescued from the NKVE. [47]
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Large floods have affected land transport in the affected states. There was a landslide in Bukit Fraser, Pahang. [14] The East Coast expressways is closed from any vehicle starting from Karak to Lanchang. [15] Federal and state roads were also closed. [16]
MANILA (Reuters) -The number of people killed by a landslide in the southern Philippines has risen to 54, the provincial government said on Sunday, as rescue workers dug more bodies from the mud.
In Pahang, the worst-hit areas are Kuantan, Maran, Jerantut, Lipis and Pekan. [12] Dozens of foreign tourists were stranded at a resort in a Malaysian national park in Pahang. Most were travellers from Canada, Britain, Australia and Romania. [13] All were rescued via boat and helicopter. [3] In Kedah, at least 51 people were evacuated. [14]
A landslide in which the sliding surface is located within the soil mantle or weathered bedrock (typically to a depth from few decimeters to some meters) is called a shallow landslide. Debris slides and debris flows are usually shallow. Shallow landslides can often happen in areas that have slopes with high permeable soils on top of low ...