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  2. Quick clay - Wikipedia

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    These landslides are retrogressive, meaning they usually start at water, and progress upwards at slow walking speed, although particularly deep quick clay layers on sloped regions may collapse much more rapidly, or in very large chunks that can slide at great speed due to the liquid nature of the disturbed clay. They have been known to ...

  3. 10 weird things that can kill you almost instantly - AOL

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    When that happens, the fish immediately release venom into whatever disturbed it. Effects are fast acting and can include heart stoppage, seizures, and paralysis. Number 8.Cleaning the toilet. No ...

  4. How to Finally Address Your Stress in the New Year - AOL

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    Many things can activate your “relaxation response,” which counteracts the natural stress response by lowering blood pressure, reducing heart rate, and slowing breathing.

  5. Landslide mitigation - Wikipedia

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    The Drainage anti-slide pile (DASP) is a reinforced concrete structure with a hollow upper section and a solid lower section, designed to resist slope deformation. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The hollow part is filled with compacted, high-permeability gravels and can drain water via a vertical drain-pipe or sub-horizontal pipes connected to the slope surface.

  6. 3 ways to minimize your own risk of falling like Pelosi and ...

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    If reports are accurate, her injury will almost certainly need surgery, and it is often done within 1 to 2 days to address pain concerns and help patients get out of bed as quickly as possible to ...

  7. Slump (geology) - Wikipedia

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    An example of a slow-moving slump is the Swift Creek Landslide, a deep-seated rotational slump located on Sumas Mountain, Washington. Slumps may also occur underwater along the margins of continents and islands, resulting from tidal action or a large seismic event. These submarine slumps can generate disastrous tsunamis.

  8. Landslide - Wikipedia

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    In the 48 million years since the slide occurred, erosion has removed most of the portion of the slide. Flims Rockslide , about 12 km 3 (2.9 cu mi), Switzerland, some 10,000 years ago in post-glacial Pleistocene / Holocene , the largest so far described in the Alps and on dry land that can be easily identified in a modestly eroded state.

  9. Choking emergency? How to do the Heimlich maneuver - AOL

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    Teacher, Driving Home From Work, Pulls Over To Save Choking 100-Year-old Woman With Heimlich Maneuver Wrap your arms around their torso from the back. Make a fist with one hand and grab it with ...