Landslide News

Sun, Nov 1, 2009, 08:59 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 01, Colombo: The National Building Research Institute of Sri Lanka has issued a warning to the residents that landslides may occur in various parts of the central hill country due to the prevailing rainy weather.

WHILE on the way back home after his night shift ended early yesterday morning, an auditor was thanking his lucky stars that he hadn't left work earlier.

Ricky Stuart knows a bit about train wrecks, disasters and horrible accidents. The Cronulla coach presided over his fair share during a forgettable year on and off the field.

AT least 13 people have been killed in a landslide in central Vietnam following storms and flooding that have now left almost 130 people dead, officials said.

Caption: Central PC Kiplimo Rugut said residents living in landslide prone areas would be moved to avert disasters during the El-Nino rains which have caused flooding in various parts of the country.

MYSORE: Two labourers who were trapped under debris in a landslide at a mica mine at Gopalapura village in Jayapura police station limits in Mysore district died here on Tuesday.

The Washington State Department of Natural Resources has issued an emergency order to suspend surface mining for a mine located at the foot of the landslide that destroyed State Route 410 and several homes.

A Jersey woman who was killed by a landslide on a beach in Tenerife has been described as "loyal, respected and popular". Marion O'Hara, 57, had gone on holiday to the Spanish island and was on a small beach when rocks came loose from cliffs at the resort of Los Gigantes.

LOOSE soil on the top of the hill where a landslide occurred on Tuesday at Selayang Heights has yet to be cleared, posing a danger should there be another major downpour.

When tons of dirt and rock came sliding down a Haywood County mountainside, it closed off 20 miles of a vital regional highway, opened a flood of concern for Western North Carolina's tourism industry and sent politicians scrambling for cleanup money.

Being an incumbent in a bad economy is, still, just about the worst gig in politics.

IT was not the first landslide in the area but the one that occurred yesterday at Km13 of Jalan Ipoh in Selayang is causing much worry and concern among the residents in the area.

Contractors will use explosives Tuesday to blast the rock slide on Interstate 40 near the Tennessee state line.

One year after winning landslide victories in the 2008 presidential and congressional campaigns, Democrats are struggling to avoid defeat on Tuesday in a trio of off-year elections touted as an early test of Americans' patience with Barack Obama.

SEARCH: Rescue personnel combing the area for victims at Km10 of the KL-Rawang road today Pic: SHAHRUL HAFIZ ZAM A LANDSLIDE, believed to have been triggered by the last two days of rain, brought tonnes of earth crashing down at Km12 of the Kuala Lumpur-Rawang road early today.

Crews are hoping they can begin drilling rocks at the top of a massive rock slide on Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee state line after rain delayed their progress over the weekend.

A river of rock and soil nearly 2.5 miles long and 1,000 feet wide, the Slumgullion landslide winds like an earthy freight train down the hills of southwestern Colorado.

Nothing is as it was just three weeks ago along this stretch of Nile Road. Certainly not State Route 410 or the Naches River.

By Claire Ellicott A British holidaymaker has died after being buried under 40 tons of falling rocks during a landslide on a Tenerife beach.

An engineer involved in building Interstate 40 through a portion of western North Carolina said more than 40 years ago that workers had problems finishing the project because of rock slides.