The Meethotamulla rubbish dump collapsed on Friday, April 14 on top of a residential neighborhood in Colombo, the capital city of Sri Lanka, destroying dozens of homes. The 300 ft (91m) high pile o...
Read MoreThe dam of San Benito Lake in Paraguay's Itapúa department breached on April 9, 2017, leading to a major flash flooding event, that broke the Graneros del Sur road in two. Authorities said the...
Read MoreSigns 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...
Read MoreThe mudslides were caused by severe rainfall in Putumayo province, south-west Colombia, on Friday, March 31. The heavy rains of Friday caused rise of the Mocoa River and three tributaries, a repres...
Read MoreA large volume of trash gave away on March 11, 2017 at a vast garbage dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, killing more than 100 people and leaving several more missing. The...
Read MoreThe famous rock formation of Malta Island collapsed into the sea on March 8, 2017, due to the heavy storms that hit the area. The Azure Window - also known as the Dwejra Window - was a 28 m tall na...
Read MoreAccording to the U.S. Geological Survey annual forecast on natural and human–induced seismic risk, Oklahoma and Kansas may experience serious ground shaking during 2017 due to the drilling activity of...
Read MoreThe total number of major active faults in the country has now increased to 113, as the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion of the Japanese government added 16 more faults to the list of ac...
Read MoreSeveral houses were destroyed in the Auquisamaña area of La Paz, Bolivia on February 15, 2017, as a landslide rolled off the mountainside into the neighbourhood of the Bolivian capital. Watch...
Read MoreΤhe landslide is moving at a rate of about 1 meter per day since February 12, tearing apart the village of Ponzano, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. The landslide was caused due to the combi...
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