As floods and landslides have buried more than 1,000 people and disrupted the balance of almost 338,000 others in 13 provinces, authorities are now trying to identify the cause.
Most experts agree on the fact that climate change and deforestation have played an important part in this equation, amplifying the traged... |
22 December 2011
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The Philippines President Benigno Aquino is struggling to restore the balance of his country, after deadly floods and landslides have killed approximately 957 people and made other 49 disappear. Collapsed houses and streets buried in mud are part of an apocalyptic landscape, Gulfnews informs. Two of the most affe... |
20 December 2011
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In a paper published in the October issue of the journal Geology, investigators announce the discovery of a massive landslide that occurred in the Canary Islands, Spain, in ancient times. Details of the catastrophe have remained perfectly preserved in the geological record.
Scientists with the American Geophysica... |
10 October 2011
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Newly-discovered evidence show that, once every 100 to 300 years, a major megastorm hits the portion of the United States West Coast that now makes up California. The damages this natural event causes are widespread, and its effects if it were to hit today would be catastrophic.According to simulations of what would ... |
24 January 2011
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In a giant outdoor laboratory, scientists used artificial landslides to uncover crucial details on these natural disasters, in an attempt to improve forecasts of their size and impact.In order to do so, they built a 2-meter-wide, 95-meter-long (6-foot-wide, 310-foot-long) slide – also called a 'flume'... |
20 December 2010
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A team of experts from the UK and New Zealand says that it's possible to use LIDAR technology to determine how much coastal morphologies change following catastrophic landslides. Knowing this is very important because it may help authorities determine when the next natural disaster will hit, thus helping them pr... |
30 November 2010
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Weather experts warn of the looming threat that tropical storm Tomas is posing on the already-battered nation of Haiti. The atmospheric event may trigger massive landslides in areas that have already been destabilized geologically by the January 7.0-magnitude earthquake.According to current forecasts, it would appear... |
5 November 2010
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Researchers in the United Kingdom announce the development of a new method of surveying dangerous geological areas for risks of impending landslides. The technique relies of sound interpretation to give early warnings of the looming threat.The electronic ear can listen for the subtle noises that ground layers make as... |
4 November 2010
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High-mountain environments are just as unpredictable as they are beautiful, as all mountain-goers surely know. While it is indeed beautiful to climb the tallest peaks and camp there, that is also extremely dangerous, especially on mountains that have been deemed to exhibit a high degree of risk for humans. Near touri... |
3 May 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that air tides, or atmospheric-pressure fluctuations, are capable of causing massive landslides. The investigation that led to this conclusion was conducted on the Slumgullion landslide, a landscape feature located in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, and ... |
2 November 2009
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Days of torrential rain have turned a significant part of Brazilian soil into a swamp and prompted massive floods and landslides in several areas of the country. From preliminary estimates, authorities reported 59 dead and nearly 44,000 uprooted by the massive weather anomaly, which struck the state of Santa Caterina... |
25 November 2008
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