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| 2006 |
| October |
| 2006-10-30 | Les inondations font neuf morts et des milliers de déplacés au Kenya (Xinhuanet) |
| 2006-10-30 | Car plunges two storeys as driveway caves in (The Sunday Times) … young woman got the shock of her life when her home shook on Saturday night as the driveway collapsed and her car plummeted two storeys into an adjacent construction site. Rachel Caruana, who lives with her family in St Elias Street, Fgura, had parked her Fiat Cinquecento (500) in the driveway just half an hour before it caved in at 7.30 p.m. |
| 2006-10-30 | Slide Draws Watchful Eyes (The Durango Herald) … "A rolling stone may gather no moss, but it could potentially threaten some Animas Valley homes. rock slide on Missionary Ridge that occurred July 5, 1998, is on the move again, with some vulnerable homes sitting below. The slide is in the East Animas Valley, above the 2700 block of East Animas Road (County Road 250). A huge block of rock recently broke off the Dakota sandstone formation, said Ray Kenny, a professor of geosciences at Fort Lewis College who is studying the slide." |
| 2006-10-30 | Typhoon Cimaron lashes northern Philippines (Canada.Com) … MANILA, Philippines - Powerful Typhoon Cimaron battered the northern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 13 people in a barrage of landslides, uprooted trees and flooding, officials said. |
| 2006-10-30 | Rockslide closes all lanes of I-90 at Hyak (KHQ Right Now) … HYAK, Wash. A rockslide early this morning has closed a section of Interstate 90 at Snoqualmie Pass, and state Transportation workers were unsure how soon the highway would reopen. The slide occurred after 3:15 a.m., sending large rocks onto westbound lanes at milepost 58, six miles east of the Snoqualmie Pass summit. No one was injured. An assessment of the hillside determined it remains unstable. |
| 2006-10-29 | ****Canada****Thousands still without power after freak snowstorm hits B.C. Interior (CBC News) … Most highways in the region had compacted snow with slippery sections. A rockslide on Saturday closed Highway 20 in both directions between Bella Coola and Anahim Lake. |
| 2006-10-29 | Rockslide Causes School Closures (The State Journal-Virginia) … Four McDowell County schools are closed due to a rockslide on Route 80. |
| 2006-10-28 | Mozambique: Prisoners Buried Alive in Gold Mine (AllAfrica.Com) … Two prisoners from the Manica district jail in central Mozambique died on Friday in a mudslide at a gold mine 15 kilometres from Manica town, reports Saturday's issue of the Maputo daily "Noticias". The prisoners were among a group of 18 inmates from the jail who were digging a ditch at the mine, prior to the installation of mining equipment. Some of these people were men serving jail sentences, but others were just detainees awaiting trial. |
| 2006-10-26 | I-70 reopens after roads cleared (Summit Daily News) … A potent winter storm quickly dumped up to 18 inches of snow in the Colorado mountains before moving into the populous Front Range on Thursday, snarling traffic and forcing dozens of school districts to shut down. “We had no snow last night and we’ve got about 14 inches now,” said Terry Shaw, manager of the Sunmart gas station in the mountain town of Georgetown, about 30 miles west of Denver. “It’s still snowing hard right now.” Westbound lanes of Interstate 70 were closed near Georgetown because of a rockslide. |
| 2006-10-26 | Landslide closes Makena State Park section (The Maui News) … Second Maui park area was closed Wednesday as a result of rocky cliffs fracturing, possibly stemming from the Oct. 15 earthquakes that rattled the state. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources said it has closed a portion of Makena State Park after a landslide occurred on the Puu Olai cinder cone. |
| 2006-10-25 | Heavy rain causes slips in Wellington (One News National) … NZ-The heavy Labour Weekend rain may have cleared in many parts of the country, but its trail of mudslides and flooding is now keeping many areas busy cleaning up. A mud slide of 25 metre pine tree logs and tonnes of debris took out part of an Eastbourne home just before 9pm on Tuesday. |
| 2006-10-25 | After oil spill, Spanish region hit by mud and ash (Yahoo News) … RIANXO, Spain (AFP) - Four years after a huge oil spill off the northern region of Galicia which caused Spain's worst environmental catastrophe, the area has been hit by mudslides, an AFP photographer reported. |
| 2006-10-25 | *****Canada****N.L. town in state of emergency after landslide (CTV News) … State of emergency has been called in a small northwestern Newfoundland community amid safety concerns, after an unexplainable landslide dumped soil into the ocean |
| 2006-10-24 | Mudslide Makes Mess In White Oak (Yahoo News) … A mudslide is making a mess of traffic in White Oak on McKee Road, authorities said. The overnight slide between Route 48 and Heckman Road has closed one lane of McKee Road. |
| 2006-10-24 | Landslide Buries Houses, Leaves Six Dead in Guatemala (Prensa Latina, Latin News Agency) … Guatemala, Oct 24 (Prensa Latina) At least six persons died today, including a child, from the landslide off a mountain that buried a village of the La Democracia municipality, in the Guatemalan Department of Huehuetenango. Pouring rains over the last few days provoked the landslide, leaving other six people injured and eight not accounted for, all belonging to the same family. |
| 2006-10-23 | Landslide in the making at Parks Yard (Nation News-Barbados Newspaper) … Landslides in Barbados, particularly across the Scotland District, are nothing new. Many people who live in this area, especially in the hilly sections of St Joseph and St Andrew, have experienced them personally, while people who have to travel through these parishes seem never to be surprised by diversions caused by broken roads. However, few Barbadians get to see a landslide as it is taking place. |
| 2006-10-21 | Rabbits blamed for peguin deaths in landslide (ABC NewsOnline) … Erosion and heavy spring rains have caused a large landslip on Macquarie Island, in the Southern Ocean about 1500 kilometres south-east of Tasmania, killing penguins in an important colony. |
| 2006-10-20 | Rain causes landslide, floods Route 30 (Pittsburgh Tribune) … Steady rain flooded a portion of eastbound Route 30 in Ligonier Township on Thursday night. Several hours earlier, a minor landslide in Apollo, on Route 66, was caused by the soggy weather. |
| 2006-10-20 | Bangkok flood unlikely, but flood, landslide warnings issued for south (MCOT News) … Flooding in Bangkok will not worsen during the next week's high tides, as earlier predicted, but heavy rain, flash floods, and landslide are expected in the south. |
| 2006-10-19 | News from the San Joaquin Valley (San Jose Mercury News) … YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) - Even the most subtle shifts in a rockslide near the park's entrance will be detected with a monitoring system that relies on radios and global positioning technology, said officials with the U.S. Geological Survey. |
| 2006-10-18 | High Tech help for Mariposa Rock Slide (ABC 30 Action News) … A new high tech effort to monitor a rockslide in Mariposa County that's caused major headaches for months. The Ferguson Rockslide is holding steady, but experts say that could change at a moment's notice. It's located on Highway 140 between Mariposa and Yosemite National Park. |
| 2006-10-18 | Rock Slide Damages Vehicles On Route 28 (KDKA 2) … For the second time in a week, rocks slid down onto Route 28 this afternoon. This time, the debris damaged a car. |
| 2006-10-17 | Lingle weighs backup power supply for Honolulu airport after blackout (Honolulu Star Bulletin) … The earthquakes turned a massive fireplace at a landmark Manoa home into a rockslide, one of the tremors' most damaging effects on Oahu. |
| August |
| 2006-08-14 | Death toll up to 6 in Zamboanga Sur flashfloods, landslides (INQ7.net, Philippines) PAGADIAN CITY -- At least three persons were killed and seven others were injured when a landslide buried a passenger bus along the highway in the village of … |
| 2006-08-14 | 2 Buried Alive, 5 Poisoned to Death in Sanitation Landslide (MOSNEWS, Russia) Seven people have died in a sanitation ditch landslide in an Uzbek village near the borders of Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Interfax news agency reports. … |
| 2006-08-14 | Landslide in Dhamar, no casualties (News Yemen, Yemen) Heavy rains and floods last night caused landslides in many areas of Dhamar, official source said. The leadership of the governorates … |
| 2006-08-14 | Jammu-Srinagar highway re-opened for traffic (Times of India, India) JAMMU: Closed for a day due to a major landslide, the 300-km long Jammu-Srinagar national highway was re-opened for vehicular traffic on Monday and over 200 … |
| 2006-08-14 | Chinese coal mine collapse kills 13 (Ireland Online, Ireland) … said rescuers had located the bodies of 13 miners, apparently killed by fumes released by the shaft’s collapse, which may have been triggered by a landslide. … |
| 2006-08-14 | Typhoon Saomai's death toll in China increases to 114 (Taipei Times, Taiwan) … Six people were reported to have been crushed to death in a landslide triggered by torrential rain in Linshui, a city in Zhejiang. … |
| 2006-08-14 | Chch homes safe despite slip (TVNZ, New Zealand) Hillside residents in Christchurch are being assured their homes are safe despite a massive rockslide. It could be several days … |
| 2006-08-14 | Storm causes floods and landslide (BBC News) More than 200 flood-related calls are received by Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service during a storm. |
| 2006-08-13 | Sinkhole Swallows Garage and Car (KOLR) Emergency workers remain on the scene of a massive sinkhole in Nixa this morning. An entire neighborhood has been evacuated after the 100-foot sinkhole opened up and took part of a house with it. |
| 2006-08-12 | Elderly Woman's Home Destroyed by Landslide (WOWK, WV) 90 year old Edna Davis lived through the flood at Buffalo Creek and now mother nature has struck again. Heavy rains triggered landslides … |
| 2006-08-10 | Mudslide kills three kids, three others (Balita.org, UK) Six persons, including three children and a pregnant woman, were presumed dead when mudslide buried their house in Balut Island, Sarangani town, Davao del Sur. … |
| 2006-08-08 | Two children die in Kalinga landslide (ABS CBN News, Philippines) Two children died while their mother was injured after a typhoon-induced landslide buried their house Monday in Tabuk, Kalinga. … |
| 2006-08-08 | Landslide kills 5 Pakistan quake survivors (People's Daily Online, China) At least five survivors of the last year devastated earthquake were killed on Tuesday when landslide hit their temporary shelter homes in Pakistan-controlled … |
| 2006-08-08 | 2 kids killed, 3 others injured in Kalinga landslide (INQ7.net, Philippines) TWO children were killed while their parents and a brother were injured after a landslide buried their house in the northern province of Kalinga amid heavy … |
| 2006-08-07 | Landslide in suburban street a 'huge disaster' (New Zealand Herald, New Zealand) A landslide which slammed into a garage and left at least one Lower Hutt house on the brink of slipping away has been described by the city's mayor as a "huge … |
| 2006-08-07 | Landslide damages Hindustan-Tibet road (The Tribune, India) A massive landslide, allegedly triggered by intense blasting at Pangi village, near Reckong Peo, district headquarters of Kinnaur, on Monday morning damaged a … |
| 2006-08-03 | Landslide kills at least 10 near Nepal-Tibet border (India eNews.com, India Kathmandu - At least 10 people were killed when landslide struck a remote village in northern Nepal, near the Tibetan border, with rescue operations hampered … |
