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decisive victory

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landslip

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Synonyms for landslide

an overwhelming electoral victory

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a slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff

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Ongjoco, said those residents were on the path of lahar and mudflow once the heavy rains brought by the typhoon sets in.
There will also be 76 underground pedestrian crossings, water collectors, bridges over mudflow channels, and junctions, among others.
Gravel brought down with the mudflow turned out to be ideal for steelhead.
Mudflow occurred in Nauryzbay district in small volume.
Usu, said he saw from a helicopter that the mudflow was spewing from a crater on Mt.
Usu in Hokkaido, northern Japan, saying it may cause mudflow or damage agriculture.
Maybe an eruption also stimulated the Electron Mudflow but left no evidence, he adds.
Workers have found the largest two examples of standing trees buried by lava and volcanic mudflow when nearby volcano Mt.
Another place to avoid is a channel carved by erosion (wearing away of a substance) from a past mudflow. These areas are more likely to experience another muddy event, Wieczorek says.
Pompeii and Stabiae were buried in about 23 feet of ash and rock; Herculaneum, by mudflow. Other towns near Vesuvius were also destroyed.
The human remains and related archaeology are preserved because a mudflow (Unit 3) plowed into and overrode the land surface upon which the humans had lived, resulting in the deformation and burial of the surface and the preservation of the archaeological material.
Pengungsi Korban Lumpur Poring Mencapai 14 Ribu Orang Lebih (number of the mudflow refugees reached 14 thousands), retrieved 15 June 2007.