Rockfall incidents are starting to increase as a result of temperature rise and glacier melting in the Swiss Alps. Swiss Alps that are located south, south-east of Switzerland, create a mountainous t...
Read MoreAt least 30 people died due to a landslide in an illegal gold mine in Chad. The landslide occurred on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. The illegal gold mine is located in Kouri Bougoudi, an area in north...
Read MoreA huge rockfall caused by blasting works closed a highway located near Boulder, Colorado. The rockslide occurred on September 11, 2019. The scheduled blast was supposed to take down about 305 m3. How...
Read More2 people were reported dead and 847,000 more were evacuated after heavy rainfalls triggered floods in Japan. The torrential rains struck southwestern Japan on August 28, 2019. Authorities issued a le...
Read MoreA little girl died and 4 members of her family were injured after a rockfall was triggered in Glacier National Park, located on the Canada–United States border in Montana. The incident occurred on Au...
Read MoreA large section of a sandstone cliff suddenly collapsed into Lake Superior, located in northern Michigan, barely missing a group of kayakers on Monday, August 10, 2019. The kayakers that were taking...
Read MoreA catastrophic landslide affected the road between Bogor and Cianjur two months before the annual Indonesian Homecoming Festival in West Java. Τhe already terrible traffic situation on West Java’s m...
Read MoreThree women were killed after a sandstone bluff collapsed at Encinitas beach, located north of San Diego. The tragic incident occurred at about 3 pm on Friday, August 2, 2019. A 3-meter wide sandston...
Read MoreA rock slide has blocked a large part of Fraser River and prevents salmons from swimming upstream. The rock slide that occurred in a remote area west of Clinton, located in British Columbia, Canada o...
Read MoreA landslide struck near a village in southwest Guizhou Province of China, destroying 21 houses and killing at least 36 people. The incident occurred on July 23, 2019. Emergency crews including more t...
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