"The causes of landslides are not a mystery to mankind. Layers of rock and soil such that rain running along a clay or rock layer can create a slippery surface for the weight of the layers above it is a common cause. A rock jumble from previous mountain building, broken or fractured rock easily dislodged. We have stated that the earthquakes man experiences between the periodic passages of Planet X can be considered aftershocks from the last passage, and this is true of landslides also. Mountain building rumples the landscape, so the land is not flat but has steep ravines and hill sides. Older mountain ranges are recognized for their rounded or smoothed appearance, because of frequent landslides distributing the rubble.

"As we approach another passage, another Pole Shift, the pace of landslides has picked up. Why would this be? Plates under pressure will put pressure on regions that contain rumpled hillsides and deep ravines, as these give more readily than strictly flat land, thus act as a weak link. In addition, due to the wobble, the weather has gotten more extreme, with drought and deluge increasing in extremes. Dry ground, suddenly flooded with rainwater needing to seek its level as runoff, will create internal water slides between the rock and soil layers that constitute the rumpled hillsides. Is there an early warning system that mankind could use? The trembles that soil about to slide emits could be detected, yes. These are not earthquakes, and have their own frequency. "

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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on May 2, 2014 at 8:33pm

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/afghan-official-says-250-missing-aft...

2,000 MISSING AFTER LANDSLIDE IN AFGHANISTAN KILLS AT LEAST 350, BURIES VILLAGE

 May. 2, 2014 2:00 PM EDT
https://twitter.com/bsarwary/status/462295290880729088/photo/1

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A landslide buried about a third of a remote northeastern Afghan village on Friday, killing at least 350 people and leaving more than 2,000 missing. Villagers looked on helplessly and the governor appealed for shovels and other equipment to help dig through the mass of mud that flattened the homes in its path.

The mountainous area in Badakhshan province has experienced frequent floods in recent days, and the side of the hill collapsed onto the village of Hobo Barik at about 1 p.m. Landslides and avalanches are frequent in Afghanistan, but Friday's was one of the deadliest.

Gov. Shah Waliullah Adeeb said more than 2,000 people were missing after a hill collapsed on the village of after days of heavy rain. Adeeb said the landslide buried some 300 homes in the area — about a third of all houses there.

Ari Gaitanis, a spokesman from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, said at least 350 people died in the landslide. He said the U.N. was working with authorities on the ground to rescue people still trapped.

The governor said rescue crews were working but didn't have enough equipment.

"It's physically impossible right now," Adeeb said. "We don't have enough shovels; we need more machinery."

Video footage of the scene showed how a large section of the mountain had simply slipped away sending mud and earth sliding through the village below.

The landslide was likely due to heavy rain in the area, said Abdullah Homayun Dehqan, the province's director for National Disaster Department. He said floods last week in different districts of the province killed four people and eight more were still missing.

The province normally has many landslides, but they generally occur in remote areas and produce no casualties, said Mohammad Usman Abu Zar from the Meteorology Department of Badakhshan province. He said authorities would investigate further, but initial reports indicated that the heavy rain was the cause.

Authorities evacuated a nearby village over concerns about further landslides, the governor said.

Provincial police chief Faziluddin Hayar said the landslide happened about 1 p.m. Friday. Friday is a day of worship in Afghanistan, so many families would have been at home instead of at work at the time.

Badakhshan province, nestled in the Hindu Kush and Pamir mountain ranges and bordering China, is one of the most remote in the country. The area has seen few attacks from insurgents following the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan.

Afghans living in the rugged mountains of northern Afghanistan are used to avalanches as well. The most deadly one in the past two years occurred in February 2010, when more than 170 people were killed at the 12,700-foot (3,800-meter) -high Salang Pass, which is the major route through the Hindu Kush mountains that connects the capital to the north.

Comment by Howard on May 2, 2014 at 5:12am

Video of the recent Baltimore landslide. Dramatic movement begins at around 1:15 min.

Source

http://www.mediaite.com/online/watch-incredible-video-shows-baltimo...

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on May 1, 2014 at 8:34pm

http://www.wdam.com/story/25401086/heavy-rain-triggers-mudslide-in-ny

Heavy rain triggers mudslide in NY

Posted: May 01, 2014 9:07 AM EDTUpdated: May 01, 2014 9:22 AM EDT

YONKERS, NY (WCBS/CNN) - A retention wall partially collapsed in Yonkers, NY Wednesday night, causing a 40-foot-wide landslide.

The landslide covered a section of commuter train tracks with concrete, rock and dirt.

No one was hurt, but train commuters should expect delays of up to a half hour Thursday morning.

It's believed heavy rains caused the incident.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on May 1, 2014 at 8:30pm

http://longisland.news12.com/news/heavy-rain-causes-landslide-in-se...

Heavy rain causes landslide in Sea Cliff - Long Island NY

Much of the driveway and backyard of the house came tumbling down with the bluff into the Long Island Sound. (1:23 PM)

SEA CLIFF - The heavy rain caused a landslide in Sea Cliff, sending one homeowner's backyard into the Long Island Sound. 

The home on Bay Avenue and 16th Avenue was evacuated, but there were no injuries reported. 

Much of the driveway and backyard of the house came tumbling down with the bluff into the Sound at around 7 a.m.. 

The homeowner had recently spent $150,000 to build a new retaining wall. 

Sea Cliff Mayor Bruce Kennedy says that officials are checking other houses to make sure that nobody else on the hillside is at risk.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on May 1, 2014 at 8:26pm

http://www.thenewage.co.za/124442-1020-53-At_least_4_dead_in_Mexico...

May 1 2014 7:20PM
 

At least four people, including two children, died when torrential rains sparked a landslide in central Mexico in the pre-dawn hours Thursday, local authorities said.

"We send our condolences to the families of the four people who lost their lives in Huehuetlan El Grande," wrote Puebla state governor Rafael Moreno on Twitter.
 
The two adult victims were women, Moreno said, adding that more people are still missing including three children. The landslide also engulfed a half dozen vehicles.
 
According to the Civil Defense personnel, the storm that hit Wednesday night caused flooding that reached over a meter (three feet) high in some canyons.
 
The landslide in this town some 165 kilometers (102 miles) from the Mexican capital, occurred in a hard-to-access area known as "Barranca San Baltazar," which was hit by heavy rains.
 
Emergency responders have arrived on the scene to search for the missing.
Comment by Tracie Crespo on April 27, 2014 at 3:28am

Landslide blocks Nepali tunnel, 16 trapped

http://www.worldbulletin.net/asia-pasific/134716/landslide-blocks-n...

Landslide blocks Nepali tunnel, 16 trapped
File Photo

A few Chinese technicians were working with about 12 Nepali workers inside the tunnel of the Upper Madi Hydroelectric Project when falling earth and rocks blocked its entrance.

World Bulletin/News Desk

Sixteen workers including a Chinese national have been trapped by a landslide inside the tunnel of a hydroelectric power project in Nepal, a project official said on Friday.

The men were working at the Upper Madi Hydroelectric Project in Kaski district, 125 km (80 miles) west of Kathmandu, when falling earth and rocks blocked the tunnel entrance.

"Excavators are removing the debris and we are trying to rescue those trapped inside," said Ram Raj Koirala, a Nepali official at the power station being built by a Chinese firm.

He said rescuers had established contact with 13 of the 16 people trapped in the tunnel and they were safe. There was no information about the others.

Drinking water and air have been supplied to the men through pipes and they are expected to be out in three to four hours, Koirala told Reuters from the site.

The project would generate 25 megawatts of power in the energy-starved country. The China International Water and Electric Corporation owns 80 percent of the $650 million plant while the project's Nepali backers own the rest.

Nepal has the potential to generate up to 83,000 megawatts of hydro-power from rivers cascading down from the Himalayas, the world's highest mountain range.

But due to a lack of funds and technical know-how, just 1 percent of that potential has been tapped. Nepal's 27 million people typically endure 12 hours of power cuts a day.

China is a major donor, business partner and investor in Nepal, a strategically located buffer state between China and India. Many Chinese companies are involved in infrastructure projects that include hydroelectric power.

Comment by Howard on April 25, 2014 at 4:44pm

Map of landslides in the U.S. since 2007.

(Click on the link below for an interactive map.)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/04/140422-surveying-am...

Comment by Yvonne Lawson on April 23, 2014 at 12:04pm

Massive landslide threatens Mont Blanc tunnel in Italy

MILAN, Italy, April 22 (Xinhua) -- A series of landslides over the past few days have disrupted traffic near Courmayeur, a renowned tourist resort in the Italian Alps, forcing temporarily closure of Mont Blanc tunnel, local reports said on Tuesday.

Around 20,000 cubic meters of mud and rock fell on Monday night, while another estimated 400,000 cubic meters of earth were on the move triggered by rising temperatures.

Local authorities reportedly closed Mont Blanc tunnel, which links Italy and France, for about two hours as a result of the crashing rocks.

Meanwhile dozens of citizens had to temporarily leave their homes while protection teams and volunteers were at work to clean roads and shore up protective barriers against further landslides.

After visiting Courmayeur on Tuesday, the head of Italian civil protection Franco Gabrielli told a press conference that the situation was "complex" not only for the "hundreds of thousands of cubic meters that will soon begin to fall, but especially because of a paleo-landslide of about 8-9 million cubic meters which has affected this area for 15 years."

He said that although it was not possible to predict when the paleo-landslide will fall completely, the renowned tourist resort was remaining "extremely safe." However, Gabrielli also added, the series of landslides was posing a threat to Mont Blanc tunnel because "an intermediate collapse would be enough to block international traffic for who knows how long."

The head of civil protection said that a total of 480,000 areas subject to landslides have been counted in Italy. But the real figure, he underlined, probably was of nearly two million areas, meaning that some 40 billion euros (55 billion U.S. dollars) would be necessary to secure the entire country.

Source: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/23/c_133282123.htm

and from another with short video: http://www.euronews.com/2014/04/21/mont-blanc-region-fears-further-...

Comment by Tracie Crespo on April 18, 2014 at 6:11pm

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/least-13-sherpas-dead-avalanche-s...

At Least 13 Sherpas Dead as Avalanche Sweeps Mount Everest

An avalanche swept down a slope of Mount Everest on Friday along a route used to ascend the world's highest peak, killing at least 13 people in the mountain's deadliest disaster.

NBC News confirmed that all of the dead were Sherpa guides.

The guides had gone early in the morning to fix the ropes for hundreds of climbers when the avalanche hit them just below Camp 2 around 6:30 a.m. local time, Nepal Tourism Ministry official Krishna Lamsal told The Associated Press.

Tilak Ram Pandey, an official at the ministry's mountaineering department, later told Reuters that some other people were thought to be missing.

Hundreds of climbers, their guides and support guides had gathered at the base camp, gearing up for their final attempt to scale the 29,035-foot peak early next month when weather conditions get favorable. They have been setting up their camps at higher altitudes and guides fixing routes and ropes on the slopes ahead of the final ascend to the summit in May.

As soon as the avalanche hit, rescuers and fellow climbers rushed to help. A helicopter was also sent.

Ang Tshering of the Nepal Mountaineering Association said that the area where the avalanche occurred is nicknamed the "popcorn field," which is just below Camp 2 at 21,000 feet.

Nepal had earlier announced several steps this year to better manage the flow of climbers, minimize congestion and speed up rescue operations. The preparations included the dispatch of officials and security personnel to the base camp located at 17,380 feet, where they would stay throughout the spring climbing season that ends in May.


Image: Mount Everest PRAKASH MATHEMA / AFP - Getty Images, file
Mount Everest and The Himalayan mountain range seen on April 3, 2013.

More than 4,000 climbers have scaled the summit since 1953, when it was first conquered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay. Nearly 250 others have died on the mountain.

The worst recorded disaster on Everest was on May 11, 1996, when eight climbers were killed in one day because of a storm near the summit. Six Nepalese guides were killed in an avalanche in 1970.

— Sarah Burke of NBC News, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on April 14, 2014 at 8:27pm

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2603890/48-residents-evacua...

48 residents were evacuated and one home is 'splitting in two' in wake of Wyoming landslide the 'size of two football fields'

  • A landslide about the size of two football fields continues to slowly move down hillside near Jackson
  • 48 Jackson residents went to Red Cross checkpoint location
  • So far only one home has sustained any damage
  • Home is directly atop slide zone and its interior wooden floor seems to be splitting in two
  • Risk of sudden collapse is 'just 5 percent'


A Wyoming landslide about the size of two football fields continues to slowly move down a hill, causing nearby residents to evacuate - and splitting apart one home. 

48 Jackson residents as well as several businesses were evacuated, according to a CNN report. The residents checked in to a Red Cross station. 

So far, only one unoccupied home has sustained any damage. The house is directly atop the slide zone and its interior wooden floor seems to be splitting in two, Assistant Town Manager Roxanne Robinson told the channel.

Crack: A large fissure can be seen in the ground in this photo

Crack: A large fissure can be seen in the ground in this photo

'What really struck me is the wood flooring, which is separating,' Robinson said. 'One half of the house looks like it's on side of the slide area and the other half is definitely at the crest of the slide.'

Robinson also said that the home's driveway is cracked by a 6-1o-12-inch upward fissure. 

According to CNN, the landslide moves slowly enough for officials to observe ground cracks and monitor its path each day.

Officials say the landslide continues to shift, making it unsafe for residents of mostly apartments to return home even though the apartments are outside the area where the highest risk of a collapse exists.

'The cracks continue to widen and deepen,' Robinson said on Saturday. 'If it keeps sliding every day, other complications could arise.'

No one can say right now when residents might be allowed back home, Robinson said.

Robinson said portable water tanks were being placed on the unstable hill in case a fire breaks out. The shifting hill has broken permanent water lines, and the temporary water lines that have been put in place don't provide sufficient pressure for firefighting, she said.

There are power lines on the hill that could be brought down by the slide and spark a fire.

'It's definitely dry on the hill, and we need to have a water supply that we can access in a hurry should it be necessary,' said Mike Moyer, an official with the local incident command team.

At the foot of the slide zone, two restaurants, a liquor store and a just-built Walgreens remain closed amid a slim but persistent risk the hill could collapse suddenly.

A geologist put the risk of sudden collapse at just 5 percent.

Helping hand: the American Red Cross is set to open a shelter for displaced residents on Sunday night

Damage: a large crack can also be seen in this photo of the affected Jackson area

Damage: a large crack can also be seen in this photo of the affected Jackson area

 


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