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Death Toll Rises in Philippines: 'The Water Was Just Too Much'

Crews search for those missing after flooding, landslides

(Newser) - The number of dead and missing in massive flooding and landslides wrought by Tropical Storm Trami in the Philippines has reached nearly 130, and the president said Saturday that many areas remained isolated with people in need of rescue. Trami blew away from the northwestern Philippines on Friday, leaving at...

Other Nations Help Bosnia Search for Victims in Rubble

Village residents watched houses disappear in landslides

(Newser) - Rescue teams from Bosnia's neighbors and European Union countries were joining efforts on Sunday to clear the rubble and find people still missing from floods and landslides that devastated sections of the Balkan country. Bosnia sought EU help after a heavy rainstorm overnight on Friday left entire areas under...

'Unprecedented' Seismic Signal Reveals a 650-Foot Tsunami

Wave became trapped in Greenland's Dickson Fjord last year, researchers find

(Newser) - Thankfully, no one was around to experience a 650-foot-high mega tsunami that sprung up close to a cruise ship route on Greenland's east coast last year, but scientists know it happened based in part on seismic waves. A seismic signal showed that the Earth shook over nine consecutive days...

66 Believed Missing as Landslide Sweeps Buses Into River

'Incessant rain' hampering search efforts in Nepal

(Newser) - As many as 66 people were believed missing in Nepal after two buses were swept by a landslide off the highway and into the swollen Trishuli River early Friday, officials said. Rescuers were trying to locate the buses but the continuous rain was making rescue efforts difficult, the AP reports....

Landslide Kills at Least 11 People at Illegal Gold Mine

19 others still missing in Indonesia

(Newser) - A landslide triggered by torrential rains crashed onto an unauthorized gold mining operation on Indonesia's Sulawesi island, killing at least 11 people, officials said Monday. Nineteen others were reported missing, the AP reports. About 35 villagers were digging for grains of gold on Sunday in a pit at the...

In Glacier Country, Situation Seems Poised 'to Explode'

Geologist warns that tourists in Alaska, elsewhere are flocking to risky spots ripe for tsunamis

(Newser) - A tsunami hasn't killed anyone on a boat in Alaska in 60 years. But there are fears that, soon, "[the situation] is going to explode," as geologist Bretwood Higman tells Hakai Magazine . Amid climate change, "the steep slopes of southeastern Alaska's numerous fjords are becoming...

Papua New Guinea Fears 2K Dead in Landslide

New estimate exceeds most recent UN count

(Newser) - The Papua New Guinea government said a landslide Friday buried more than 2,000 people and has formally asked for international help, the AP reports. The government figure is around three times more than a United Nations' estimate of 670. In a letter seen by the Associated Press to the...

More Than 100 Feared Dead in Papua New Guinea Landslide
'The Entire Village
Has Gone Down'
May 24, 2024 2:00 AM CDT

'The Entire Village Has Gone Down'

More than 100 feared dead in Papua New Guinea landslide

(Newser) - More than 100 people are believed to have been killed Friday in a landslide in a remote part of Papua New Guinea, Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported, per the AP . The landslide reportedly hit Kaokalam Village in Enga Province, about 370 miles northwest of the South Pacific island nation's capital...

California Landslide (Barely) Spares Seaside Mansions

But the residences in Dana Point are deemed safe

(Newser) - A massive landslide on a coastal bluff has left a Southern California mansion on the edge of a cliff, but authorities have determined that the ocean-view home and neighboring residences are not in immediate danger. The slide occurred last week in the city of Dana Point after back-to-back drenching storms...

Landslide 'Swallows' Miners in Turkey
Landslide 'Swallows'
Gold Miners
Feb 14, 2024 12:00 AM CST

Landslide 'Swallows' Gold Miners

Activists have tried to shut down the open pit gold mine before

(Newser) - A landslide hit a gold mine in Turkey on Tuesday, trapping nine miners. Hundreds of rescue workers were searching for the miners, whom the Guardian describes as being "swallowed" by a "cyanide-laced landslide"—the chemical compound is in the ground in the area because it's used...

47 People Buried in China Landslide
47 People Buried in
China Landslide
Jan 22, 2024 1:00 AM CST

47 People Buried in China Landslide

200 more evacuated in Liangshui

(Newser) - A landslide in southwestern China's mountainous Yunnan province early Monday buried 47 people and forced the evacuation of 200 more amid freezing temperatures and falling snow, the AP reports. The disaster struck just before 6am in the village of Liangshui in the northeastern part of Yunnan province. Rescue efforts...

Rescuers Finally Reach Trapped Workers in India
All 41 Trapped India Workers
Have Been Rescued
UPDATED
Nov 28, 2023 10:07 AM CST

All 41 Trapped India Workers Have Been Rescued

Rescuers pull men to safety after 17 days buried underground

(Newser) - India's transportation minister says all 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country's north for more than two weeks have been pulled out after rescuers reached them on Tuesday. Nitin Gadkari, the minister of road transport and highways, wrote on X that...

4th Person Found Dead, 2 Still Missing After Landslide

Landslide ripped through remote Alaska fishing community

(Newser) - Authorities recovered the body of an 11-year-old girl Saturday evening from the debris of a landslide in southeast Alaska that tore down a wooded mountainside days earlier, smashing into homes in a remote fishing village, the AP reports. The girl, Kara Heller, was the fourth person confirmed killed by last...

Alaska Landslide Kills Girl, Leaves 5 People Missing

A woman was injured when houses near Wrangell were hit

(Newser) - This file has been updated with information about the victims. Five people are missing after a landslide near the Alaskan city of Wrangell killed a girl and injured a woman, per the AP . No information about either of them was immediately released. The slide, estimated at 450 feet wide, occurred...

As Houses Slide Into Canyon, City Needs Answers Fast

A landslide started the California evacuations, but no one is sure of the cause

(Newser) - A homeowners association in Southern California is trying to hire a geologist—quickly. A landslide that began Saturday night destroyed 12 houses in the city of Rolling Hills Estates and has sent others slowly slipping toward a canyon, the Guardian reports. No one is sure why, so the city told...

Huge Rock Slide Misses Village by a Whisker

Residents of Brienz, Switzerland, evacuated last month, just in case

(Newser) - Residents of the tiny Swiss village of Brienz had to evacuate last month because geologists feared a massive rock slide was imminent. The geologists were proved to be correct overnight Thursday, though the massive rock slide stopped short of the village by a matter of feet. Remarkable images show the...

Villagers Told to Get Out Before Mountain Falls

There's a 10% chance Swiss village could be buried in the coming days

(Newser) - Residents of the small Swiss village of Brienz have been told to get out before a mountain falls on their heads. Geologists say a large chunk of the mountain that looms over the village is unstable, and that more than 70 million cubic feet of dirt and rocks could fall...

Scores Killed, 100 Missing in Congo Flash Floods
Flooding Kills Scores in Congo
May 6, 2023 12:15 PM CDT

Flooding Kills Scores in Congo

About 100 are reported to be missing

(Newser) - The death toll from flash floods and landslides in eastern Congo has risen to 176, with some 100 people still missing, according to a provisional assessment given by the governor and authorities in the country's South Kivu province. Rivers broke their banks in villages in the territory of Kalehe...

California Saturated Again. Then, 'a Big Old Crunch'

Residents made to evacuate oceanfront homes in San Clemente after moisture-induced landslide

(Newser) - The California city of San Clemente was hit by a landslide this week after heavy rains, an event that tore away at cliffsides, oceanfront decks, and pieces of patio and forced the evacuation of several apartment buildings perched on the edge of those cliffs. The San Clemente Times reports that...

Landslide Buries Campsite, Killing at Least 16

17 missing in Malaysia disaster

(Newser) - A landslide early Friday at a hillside tourist campground in Malaysia left 16 people dead and authorities said 17 others were feared buried at the site on an organic farm outside the capital, Kuala Lumpur. An estimated 94 people, all Malaysians, were sleeping at the campsite in Batang Kali in...

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