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Can satellites be used as an early warning system for landslides?

A joint team of researchers from Newcastle University (UK), Chengdu University of Technology, Tongji University, China Academy of Space Technology and Wuhan University (China) are working on the use o...

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Unprecedented rainfall leaves at least 11 dead in Japan

As of Friday, July 7, 2017, eleven people are confirmed dead and 14 are still missing, after three days of extreme rainfall caused massive flooding and landslides in many parts of Kyushu, southwestern...

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Deadly landslide occurs in Sichuan province, China

Fifteen people have been confirmed dead and more than 100 are still missing, due to the landslide that took place early Saturday in Sichuan province, south-western China. The side of a mountain col...

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Tsunami waves leave 4 people dead in Greenland (video)

A very large landslide or the shallow M4.0 earthquake registered by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS), 28 km north of the village of Nuugaatsiaq, in the western coast of Greenland,...

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Greek village evacuated after huge mining-induced landslide (video)

The village of Anargyroi in the region of Kozani, Greece has been evacuated over the past weekend, after a massive landslide occurred at the area's lignite mine. According to the Greek media, the l...

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Massive landslide buries part of California highway (video)

Part of the mountainside went off into the Pacific Ocean, covering up a big part of scenic Highway 1 in Big Sur area, California, on Saturday, May 20th. Aerial photos and video of the massive...

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Landslide Prediction System successfully tried in Thailand

NEC Corporation (Japan), in collaboration with Thailand's National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC), announced a few days ago the completion of the trial for a prediction system that identifies areas pr...

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Landslide in Kyrgyzstan kills 24 (video)

The landslide occurred due to heavy rain on Saturday, April 29, in the southwestern part of the country, tearing through Ayu village and burying 24 people under the debris.  According to the M...

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10,000 homes could be damaged by earthquake-induced landslides in Wellington, NZ

Up to 10,000 houses of Wellington, New Zealand are threatened by damage due to landslides, if a big quake strikes the region, according to QuakeCoRE, New Zealand's centre for earthquake resilience....

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Slow-moving landslide discovered near the 2014 Oso landslide site in Washington

Signs of the landslide were first discovered on Tuesday, April 4 by Washington's Department of Transportation workers, who noticed cracks on a hillside road. The slide is about 1.5 miles west of th...

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