A large landslide hit the Kootenay community, 275 km from Johnsons Landing in British Columbia on July 12. Four people are still unaccounted for after a landslide but there are unconfirmed information that two bodies have been recovered. Emergency officials said the
More than 5,000 people have been cut off by landslides as more heavy rain and floods are forecast in southwestern Japan. More than 5400 people have been cut off by landslides since late Saturday as mudslides and fallen trees have cut roads and water supplies in the
A massive landslide, one of the biggest ever seen in North America, has covered a more than 9 km run of the Johns Hopkins Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. A huge chunk of the slope of Lituya Mountain sloughed off June 11 and cascaded into the valley
Severe torrential rains caused flash flooding in northern Turkey. Many houses, workplaces and roads were flooded in the Dikmen and Durağan districts after it began raining early on Monday evening and continued into Tuesday.The downpours have caused a river to burst
From Wednesday night to early Thursday morning, downpours lashed Ningnan county in the Liangshan Yi autonomous prefecture of Sichuan. The heavy rains caused mudslides around 6:15 am in the Aizigou Valley, where construction workers from Three Gorges Co were staying as
Days of rain in Bangladesh, some of the heaviest in years, have set off flash floods and landslides, killing at least 70 people and stranding about 200,000, police and officials said on Wednesday, June 27, 2012.According to National Geographic, Bangladesh ranks
Several parts of China have been hit by torrential rains over the last few days, resulting in the evacuation of millions of people and property damage.In east China’s Zhejiang province, heavy rains have forced 17,000 people to relocate and affected the lives of more
Mount Elgon, Uganda – After heavy rain for a number of days on Monday, June 25, 2012 a series of devastating landslides buried entire villages in parts of the mountainous Bugisu sub-region of eastern Uganda. Eighteen people have been confirmed dead and more than 450
Massive boulders crashed onto houses Wednesday in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, killing at least eight people after a night of heavy rains, police and the Kenyan Red Cross said. The landslide, which unleashed huge boulders, wrecked at least 40 homes in the sprawling slums
Last week a landslide occurred on the main road out of Gisborne in North Island of New Zealand, which blocked the Waioeka Gorge. Remarkably, the landslide was captured with a high quality video which can be viewed here. This slip dropped without much warning, the
