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Landslide & Avalanche

Gabion wall for landslide-prone stretch

THE Public Works Department (JKR) is building a retaining wall at the 4.9th kilometre of Jalan Tun Sardon in Penang to prevent a recurrence of landslides there during heavy rain. Penang Public Works, Utilities and...

HuffPo Blogger: Landslide Needed to Defeat 'Unheroic Killer' McCain

Mirror, mirror, on the wall; who's the kookiest HuffPo blogger of them all? Until today, I would have declared former Al Gore fashion consultant, Naomi Wolf, the hands down winner in the flat out nuts department over at the...

Landslide threat to trunk roads

The landslide at Lochearnhead saw 57 people airlifted to safety One fifth of Scotland's main road network is at risk of landslides, according to a report. Transport Scotland has identified 67 high-risk sites, with the A82...

China investigates landslide that buried village

Chinese authorities launched an investigation Monday into an industrial landslide that buried a village in northern China, amid claims that officials initially downplayed the scale of the tragedy, a state news agency reported.

RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc

Rwanda’s hilly western and northern regions are prone to landslides and flooding KIGALI, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding, destroying homes and crops in Rwanda's western and northern...

Courts at risk of being swamped with cases

06-Oct-2008

By Michael Peel and Megan Murphy An avalanche of credit crunch lawsuits could overwhelm the court system as funding pressures threaten to dent its reputation as a top centre for global business disputes, the government's former...

Residents Remain On Shaky Ground One Year After Slide

La Jolla Rocked By Slide One Year Ago Mari Payton, NBC 7/39 Reporter POSTED: 7:46 am PDT October 3, 2008 UPDATED: 8:05 am PDT October 3, 2008 LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Attorneys representing slide victims and more than 100 plaintiffs...

World Bank to grant $35 mn aid to Nepal`s flood victims!

Kathmandu, Oct 02: World Bank will grant NRs 2.6 billion (USD 35 million) assistance to the six million people affected by floods and landslides in Nepal. According to the Bank, the amount would be spent in getting relief in...

Landslide along Yangtze River bank in China's Anhui sinks 48 houses

HEFEI, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 40 houses were submerged after a landslide on the banks of the Yangtze River's Heishazhou section in the eastern province of Anhui, local authorities said on Thursday, but no casualties were...

No rain drop blames itself for the flood

Think of a mountainside full of snow. A snowflake falls, an avalanche begins and a village is buried. What caused the catastrophe? The value-at-risk crowd focuses on each snowflake and resulting cause and effect. The complexity...

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