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The 2005 Leuwigajah landslide was a landslide that killed 143 people in Indonesia. The Leuwigajah landfill serving the cities of Cimahi and Bandung in West Java , Indonesia experienced a catastrophic garbage landslide on 21 February 2005 when the face of a large, almost-vertical garbage mound collapsed after days of rain.
UTC time: 2005-03-28 16:09:37: ISC event: 7486110: USGS-ANSSComCat: Local date: 28 March 2005 (): Local time: 23:09:37: Magnitude: 8.6 M w [1]: Depth: 30.0 km (18.6 mi) [1] Epicenter: 1]: Fault: Sunda megathrust: Type: Megathrust: Areas affected: Indonesia: Max. intensity: MMI VIII (Severe) [2]: Tsunami: 3.0 m (9.8 ft) at Simeulue: Landslides: Yes: Casualties: 915–1,314 deaths [3] 340 ...
According to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB, or Badan Nasional Penanggulanan Bencana), as many as 566 people were killed by natural disasters and displaced over 2.6 million in Indonesia in 2014. Almost all of the disasters were classified as hydro-meteorological events.
Rescuers were hampered by damaged bridges and roads and a lack of heavy equipment Monday after torrential rains caused multiple disasters on remote eastern Indonesian islands as well as in East Timor.
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Ridwan Wadjah vividly remembers the moment a torrent of mud came crashing down on him and the dozens of miners working this week in an illegal gold mine in Indonesia's Sulawesi island. Rescuers ...
Prior to the disaster itself, another landslide on 19 January had caused the closure of a main road within the regency, although no victims were reported. [2] At the site of the disaster, at Petungkriyana [ id ] district in the hilly southern part of the regency, heavy rains began in the afternoon.
Days of torrential rain have brought floods and landslides in Indonesia's province of West Sumatra, forcing the evacuation of more than 70,000 people, while killing at least 19, with seven going ...