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Natural causes of landslides include: groundwater (pore water) pressure acting to destabilize the slope, loss or absence of vertical vegetative structure, soil nutrients, and soil structure, erosion of the toe of a slope by rivers or ocean waves weakening of a slope through saturation by snow melt, glaciers melting, or heavy rains earthquakes adding loads to barely stable slope, earthquake-caused liquefaction destabilizing slopes, and volcanic eruptions.

Learn the definitions and what causes avalanches, landslides, and mudslides. Explore one of the deadliest avalanches in recorded history.

One person has been confirmed dead and 550,000 have been told to evacuate after the car park was destroyed in the mudslide in Anan, Tokushima, Japan, yesterday.

Land slide during storms at Lusty Glaze, Newquay, Cornwall - Feb 2014

You don't need an eye of a geologist to identify and admire the different types of landforms around you. Being well-versed with the basic features of various landforms and their formation process will be more than enough.

A landslide is defined as the movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope due to gravity. The materials may move by falling...

Tennessee DOT has closed the road while engineers work to assess and repair the damage

Every year several parts of India is badly affected by several flash floods and landslides of bewildering variety. These floods landslides cause not only recurring losses of human life’s but also recurring economic losses worth billions of rupees. The driving forces/pressures for flooding and landslides are of natural, manmade and combination of factors which interact […] The post Technical Solutions to Mitigate Disasters of Landslides & Flash Floods appeared first on Constro...

Deforestation- This landslide in El Salvador in 2001, was caused after severe deforestation weakened the land. When an earthquake struck, the landslide alone killed 585 people in one town