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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]
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.
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.
The 2024 Wayanad landslides were a series of landslides that occurred in Punjirimattom, Mundakkai, Chooralmala, and Vellarimala villages in Meppadi panchayat, Vythiri taluk [5] in Wayanad district, Kerala, India in the early hours of 30 July 2024.
An Acrisol is a Reference Soil Group of the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB). [1] It has a clay-rich subsoil. It is associated with humid, tropical climates, such as those found in Brazil, and often supports forested areas. [2]
Tana Toraja (lit. 'Toraja Land' in Toraja language) is a landlocked regency of South Sulawesi Province of Indonesia, and home to the Toraja ethnic group. It covers an area of 2,054.30 km 2 (793.17 sq mi) and had a population of 221,081 at the 2010 census [3] and 280,794 at the 2020 census; [4] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 291,046 (comprising 150,655 males and 140,391 females), [5 ...