Landslides

[Robyn Appleton]

"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. "

ZetaTalk Chat Q&A: March 22, 2014

[Mark]

Deadly landslide hits Karenni village in Myanmar

https://www.mnnonline.org/news/deadly-landslide-hits-karenni-christ...

Myanmar (MNN/VBB) — Eight days ago, heavy rains came as another blow to the village of Mawchi in Kayah State, Myanmar.

Already dealing with the country’s worst floods in 100 years, which struck from late July to August, the deluge caused a river to flood a bridge, wash out roads, and slow down emergency personnel dealing with deadly landslides in the area. Local authorities are relocating those living in disaster-hit areas to relief camps.

Dyann Romeijn, a spokeswoman for Vision Beyond Borders, says, “It’s in a village that our contacts work with, out of the refugee camps, and it’s predominantly a Christian village. I believe that there are 792 victims that are now displaced that are staying in a church, a middle school, an old hospital, and a high school.”Myanmar (MNN/VBB) — Eight days ago, heavy rains came as another blow to the village of Mawchi in Kayah State, Myanmar.

Already dealing with the country’s worst floods in 100 years, which struck from late July to August, the deluge caused a river to flood a bridge, wash out roads, and slow down emergency personnel dealing with deadly landslides in the area. Local authorities are relocating those living in disaster-hit areas to relief camps.

Dyann Romeijn, a spokeswoman for Vision Beyond Borders, says, “It’s in a village that our contacts work with, out of the refugee camps, and it’s predominantly a Christian village. I believe that there are 792 victims that are now displaced that are staying in a church, a middle school, an old hospital, and a high school.”

[Mark]

California mudslide could take MONTHS to clear with hundreds of cars and trucks STILL buried in 6ft 'river of mud'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3277645/California-mudslide...

Devastation caused by mudslides in California could take months to clear up with hundreds of cars and lorries still stuck in 6ft-deep dirt.
Violent storms struck northern Los Angeles Thursday, causing a rolling river of mud to engulf vehicles on major trucking routes and flow into people's homes.
Families spoke of the terrifying moments they were forced to clamber onto their car roofs as rising floodwater flowed into their cars, with children telling parents that they thought they were going to die.
No one was injured or killed in the chaos, but California now faces a grueling clean-up operation which could take months, officials said.
Kerjon Lee, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Public Works, said crews needed to clear out 20,000 dump trucks worth of dirt and rocks left on major roads, which could take months.
He added that 50 field personnel and more than 30 pieces of heavy equipment were on the ground in the small mountain communities of Elizabeth Lake and Lake Hughes in Leona Valley, about 40 miles north of Los Angeles.
Homeowners spent most of their Saturday shoveling mud out of their homes, with one property destroyed and the possibility of more having to be knocked down because of damage.
Gary and Gina Hartle, who own a 70-acre horse ranch in Lake Hughes, said they had no idea how long it would take to repair their home.
'Our property is 75 percent devastated,' Mrs Hartle, 54, said. 'We can't access our homes too well right now because everything is washed out.'
She said the two homes on the land seemed like they were fine, but that one of the homes was without water because of an inundated pump, and their 20-foot trailer is nowhere in sight.
'It either got buried or it's downriver,' she said.

[Starr DiGiacomo]

http://www.thenewsteller.com/pakistan/13-dead-including-seven-child...

13 dead including seven children in Karachi landslide incident

KARACHI: Thirteen people including seven children were dead in area of Gulistan-e-Jauhar in Karachi on Tuesday.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34513853

Pakistan landslide kills 13 in Karachi

• 13 October 2015
• The rockslide crushed homes on a plot of land carved out of a hill

A rare rockslide in Pakistan's city of Karachi has hit several makeshift homes, killing 13 people including seven children, officials say.

The landslide struck early on Tuesday, burying homes in Gulistan Johar district under a mass of rock and mud.

Rescue workers are using mechanical tools to clear the rubble.

Police and officials are investigating the cause of the landslip, including the possibility of sabotage by land grabbers, reports say.

Landslides are rare in Karachi, where most of the land is mud and sand - but the huts appeared to be part of a slum situated on land that had been flattened by cutting off the side of a ridge, the BBC's Ilyas Khan in Islamabad reports.

[Mark]

NZ: Sudden landslip still moving

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wanganui-chronicle/news/article.cfm?c_id=...

A massive drop-out on State Highway 4 happened so quickly it was lucky no vehicles were swept away by it, says Higgins worker Paul Seconi.

It's his job to guard the ever-expanding drop-out that has closed a lane of the highway just south of Upokongaro.

Mr Seconi said the slip opened up a couple of weeks ago and began as a small crack in the road.

"A truckie noticed a crack in the road about 5am and by 9am this side of the road had gone," Mr Seconi said.

Higgins staff were keeping a round-the-clock watch on the drop-out as it was still moving.

As well, large cracks were appearing in the road near the drop-out.

Mr Seconi said if the drop-out ate further into the road, both lanes would have to close.

The drop-out was most likely caused by weakening of the land due to underground water that came down from nearby hills during floods in June.

Next week construction will begin on a temporary stretch of road, about 100m long, that will be made in farmland next to the road. That would help keep traffic away from the drop-out.

"The farmer will lose a bit of his paddock, but it's only temporary and he'll get it back," Mr Seconi said.

He estimated the road would take about a year to fix.

[Mark]

WATCH: landslide sees "hundreds of tons" fall onto North Devon beach as safety warning issued

http://www.northdevonjournal.co.uk/8203-WATCH-landslide-sees-hundre...

DRAMATIC video and pictures show a landslide of "hundreds of thousands of tons" at cliffs in Lynmouth as the coastguard warns people to stay away.

Sunday morning saw the landslide on the cliffs at Sillery Sands which Lynmouth Coastguard Search and Rescue said "swamped probably an eighth of the beach".

A statement from the Coastguard warned people to stay away.

It said: "The Cliff at Sillery remains very unstable, Sunday morning saw a landslide of hundreds of thousands of tons which has swamped probably an eighth of the beach, this not a safe place to be.

[Mark]

Fatal landslip hits Guatemala

http://www.euronews.com/2015/10/02/fatal-landslip-hits-guatemala/

At least seven people have been killed after a rain-soaked hillside collapsed on a neighborhood on the outskirts of Guatemala’s capital.

[Kris H]

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/03/c_134681007.htm

Landslide in southern Guatemala. 600 missing.

[Mark]

Dozens rescued in B.C. landslides

http://www.cbc.ca/news/dozens-rescued-in-b-c-landslides-1.3238352

Residents of Birken, north of Pemberton, B.C., where a mudslide took place Sunday, have been put on evacuation alert as renewed heavy rains threaten the safety of their homes.

The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District issued the evacuation alert for 38 properties Thursday, noting that "following the mudslide, and in light of the rainfall predicted, the risk of debris and flooding in the vicinity of Birken presents a potential danger to life, safety and property."

A mudslide caused by heavy rains closed off several roads throughout the Sea-to-Sky region on Sunday.

In Lillooet, 50 campers were airlifted out to Pemberton. Closer to Squamish, seven people were airlifted on Sunday and another 28 were able to drive out on Monday when a back road was cleared for them to pass.

Nearby resident Michelle Molnar, who lives in the Birken neighbourhood, said she could hear the landslide a kilometre from her home.

"You could hear it rumbling at the top — it would come down, snake through the little drench that it built and end up taking out trees and big boulders. Super loud," said Molnar.

[KM]

http://strangesounds.org/2015/09/giant-crack-peru-state-of-emergenc...

Giant crack swallows 24 houses and a church in Peru: State of emergency declared

And suddenly a new crack opened up in the village of Tarabamba, Peru.

The state of emergency has been declared as the geological phenomenon swallowed 24 houses and destroyed a church, a school, a bridge, two irrigation canals and 60 hectares of crops.

The giant crack opened up in the Peruvian department of Ancash on September 13, 2015 and has never stop growing since then.

Here some images of this growing disaster:

Here a video in Spanish about the apocalyptical situation in Tarabamba… Bad, really bad…

Tarabamba is not the first town subject to geological movement and anomalies in the region. State of emergency was declared in May 2015 as large cracks devoured homes and left 60 families stranded.

[Mark]

Cliff landslide sees 17 houses cut off in Kerry

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/cliff-landslide-sees-17-houses...

Seventeen houses are effectively cut off and have no vehicle access following the landslide which saw serious road slippage on the cliffside in the cul-de-sac.

County council area engineers and local councillors were at the scene on what is known as “the Cliff Road” — on a hillside overlooking the Blue Flag beach of Rossbeigh strand and Dingle Bay.

In a statement, the council said while the road had to be closed for safety reasons, it would do all it could to facilitate pedestrians.
An application for emergency funding is being submitted to the Department of Transport, Tourism, and Sport to help provide an alternative access.

The houses, a mix of residential and holiday homes, have been sounding warning bells for some time about the threat of erosion from waves at the base of the cliff, winds, and frost. The road was already vulnerable and had slipped in the storms of 2014.

Heavy rainfall over the weekend saw the Cliff Road slip a further 3.6m on Tuesday, making it impossible for vehicular access.

Local councillor Michael Cahill said the people were effectively cut off and could only reach their houses on foot.

He said he had called on the Office of Public Works for some years to address the issue of erosion, but he said he felt his calls had not been taken seriously.

“The situation has gone from bad to worse. I am calling on Minister Simon Harris to provide proper funding for coastal protection,” Mr Cahill said.