News on Natural Disasters / Failures

Garbage dump collapse in Sri Lanka kills at least 28 people

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...

Dam collapse in Paraguay causes major flooding (video)

The 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...

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...

Mudslides in Colombia leave more than 200 dead (video)

The 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...

Rubbish landslide in Ethiopia leaves more than 100 people dead

A 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...

Malta’s Azure Window collapses after storm

The 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...

Oklahoma faces seismic risk due to drilling activity

According 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...

Sixteen new locations listed as major active fault zones in Japan

The 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...

Footage captures landslide destroying homes in Bolivia (video)

Several 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...

Italian village is being torn apart by slow-moving landslide (video)

Τhe 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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