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Amtrak rail corridor major reliability upgrade undertaken by WSDOT

WSDOT is currently undertaking a landslide prevention project along its Amtrak Cascades rail corridor aiming in eliminating service disruptions due to the frequent landslide occurrence of the past yea...

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Earthquake resistant pipes installed in the LA water network

The 21st anniversary of the magnitude 6.7 1994 Northridge Earthquake, became the opportunity for announcing the upgrade of the water-pipe infrastructure around the Northridge Hospital Medical Center....

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Video: Rock-A-Nore rockfall - cliff collapses and caught on video!

A steep coastal cliff collapses at Rock-a-Nore in Hastings, UK, and the event is captured in video! The collapse occurred after days of continuous rain, which caused additional damage and many more la...

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Landslides in Indonesia engulf entire villages and cause casualties

 Following days of heavy rains, massive landslides in Indonesia caused many casualties and burried entire villages under mud and rubble. Many people are still reported as missing while more rain...

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Has the world's largest landslide occurred in Utah?

Millions of years ago, the sloping ground of southwest Utah was frequently covered with ash and debris, as a result of the intense volcanic activity taking place in the area. Those ash and debris laye...

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Deadly landslides occur in Italy and Switzerland due to torrential rainfall

Switzerland and northern Italy are severely battered by heavy rain in the last days, which caused extensive landslides and cost several lives. Weather forecasts predict that rain will continue to hit...

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Landslides and earthquakes to be correlated, according to recent study

A recently published study demonstrates that earthquakes instead of climate change as previously thought, have an effect on the rate of landslides in Peru. The particular findings were published in Na...

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Sri Lanka: Fatal landslides devastate the country

Fatal landslides are triggered by monsoon rains in Sri Lanka on Wednesday, causing many casualties, leaving hundreds of missing and washing away homes and destroying a tea-growing region of the countr...

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Geological Survey of India towards developing a landslide Early Warning System

Destruction pictures like this could be avoided in the near future and casualties could be reduced or even eliminated with a new promising technology currently under development. A new project launche...

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Flash floods in Washington block roads & damage homes

Areas burnt from wildfires, in north central Washington, are now buried under rocks, mud and water as a result of the heavy rain which fell in the area the last days. There were no reports of injuries...

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