Landslide News

200,000 tons of rock fell. Two lanes are cleared for work trucks, but highway can't be reopened because of unstable rock.

NILE, Wash. - A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.

Gov. Bev Perdue on Wednesday asked the federal government to make loans available to businesses losing money because of the Interstate 40 rock slide.

The mayor of a small northern Newfoundland town, devastated by a series of landslides two years ago, says residents are in shock over a provincial decision this week to evacuate 23 more homes.

A LANDSLIDE hit a factory in Rossendale as torrential rain caused flooding chaos across East Lancashire.

The landslide buried part of a village. Shoddy home construction may have played a role in the devastation.

Work begins on clearing a rock slide Oct. 27, 2009, on Interstate 40 in Haywood County, west of Asheville, N.C. Engineers plan to remove as much of the rock at the base of the slide as possible to all Click to enlarge photo.

Tons of dirt and mud wiped out a two-car garage after a huge landslide in Gig Harbor early Monday.

Contractors clearing the rock slide blocking Interstate 40 near Tennessee plan to begin hauling away debris today, the N.C. Department of Transportation said.

Tennessee officials say a stretch of U.S. Highway 64 buried under a rock slide will not reopen for at least two months while the debris is cleared away.

A rescue operation is underway after a massive landslide buried part of a village in a rural area of north China's Shanxi Province on Monday.

Plans to raise the water level behind China's massive Three Gorges dam to full capacity this month - which would mark the symbolic culmination of the decades-old project - have stalled amid a worsening drought and reports of increased landslide risks.

Chennai, Nov. 10 : A major landslide, triggered by seasonal torrential rains, has killed at least 42 people in Tamil Nadu's Nilgiri district.

Willie Bain, the next MP for Glasgow North East, and Jim Murphy, the Scottish secretary, celebrate Labour's byelection victory in the seat today.

Mud and boulders loosened by heavy rains swept down a volcano and partly buried a small town yesterday, swallowing up homes as flooding and landslides across El Salvador killed at least 124 people, authorities said.

There's already some flooding in the streets of one Alabama town with Tropical Storm Ida just hours away from making landfall.

Landslides caused by heavy rainfall over the past few days in the Ooty mountain ranges have flattened several hamlets near Coonoor, said officials on Tuesday.

A second rock slide has closed U.S. 64 in East Tennessee in both directions, and a state transportation spokeswoman says it could be three weeks before the scenic highway along the Ocoee River reopens.

A large rock slide triggered by blasting for a new bridge at Big Bear Lake dam has closed Highway 18 for unknown time.

Officials say at least 42 people are dead following a rain-triggered landslide in southern India.