A Landslide is a geological phenomenon. Landslide may also refer to Landslide victory , a term used in politics Landslide song Landslide song , a 1975 song by Fleetwood Mac, re made by the Smashing Pumpkins in 1994 and later by the Dixie Chicks in 2002 Landslide , a song by AC DC from the album Flick of the Switch Landslide , a song by Olivia Newton John on her 1982 album Physical album Physical Landslide novel Landslide novel , a 1967 thriller novel by Desmond Bagley Landslide musician , a UK garage, 2 step, house music, drum and bass, and future jazz musician currently signed to Hospital Records who also appeared in London Elektricity s live brum and bass act Landslide Heroes Landslide Heroes , the 22nd episode of the television series Heroes Landslide board game Landslide board game , the name of two board games about the U.S. presidential elections, where players compete to become the president of the United States Landslide, test equipment by Spirent Communications to model data traffic for evaluating network equipments that handle such traffic Landslide Productions, an Internet payment system that was implicated in Operation Avalanche child pornography crackdown A fictional Marvel Comics character see Cerebro s X Men Landslide Transformers , a fictional character that appears in Transformers Cybertron disambig cu date February 2012 ru ... more details
Tim Land , better known as Landslide , is a dubstep , Broken Beat UK garage , 2 step garage 2 step , drum and bass , and future jazz musician also heavily influenced by Latin music Latin , Soul music soul , and bossa nova , previously signed to Hospital Records , from London , England . Originally a drum mer for bands, he was introduced to Tony Colman and Chris Goss the label s founders through a sound engineer ing job. ref http www.hospitalrecords.com artists landslideLandslide s page at Hospital Records ref He has also appeared as a musician on London Elektricity s live drum and bass act, mainly organizing and playing sampling music sample s on Roland V Drums Drum pads . ref http www.youtube.com watch?v nIbjUfJRaeM London Elektricity s live drum and bass ref In addition to his production work, Landslide is a lecturer in Creative Sound & Music at University of Wales, Newport. ref http amd.newport.ac.uk displayPage.aspx?object id 12494&type PAG ref Albums Medical History 2006 Drum and Bossa 2000 Singles Parables 2009 Yemp Booty 2008 Dreams & Visions 2008 Splurt 2007 Solitary 2007 Conundrum 2006 It s Not Over 2002 Hear my People 2001 Incurable Voices 2000 Down Down 2000 Drum & Bossa 1999 Remixes Return of Forever by High Contrast 2002 Round the Corner by London Elektricity 2001 References Reflist External links http www.myspace.com timlandslide Landslide on Myspace http www.discogs.com artist LandslideLandslide at Discogs http www.vinylrecords.ca landslide alison crockett over garage future jazz p 1487.html Landslide single at vinylrecords.ca http www.mp3.com artist landslide1 summary Landslide at mp3.com http www.artistdirect.com nad store artist album 0,,1124157,00.html Allmusic review of Drum and Bossa on artistdirect.com Persondata name Landslide alternative names short description date of birth place of birth date of death place of death DEFAULTSORT Landslide Category UK garage musicians Category Electronic musicians Category British percussionists Category Living ... more details
Infobox Single Name Landslide of Love Cover Transvision vamp landslide of love s.jpg Artist Transvision Vamp from Album Velveteen album Velveteen B side W11 Blues Hardtime br He s the Only One for Me Released 1989 Format CD single CD , 7 & 12 vinyl Recorded 1989 Genre Pop music Pop Rock music Rock Length 3 50 Label MCA Records br small TVV 8 small Writer Nick Christian Sayer Producer Duncan Bridgeman br Zeus B. Held Certification Last single The Only One Transvision Vamp song The Only One br 1988 This single Landslide of Love br 1989 Next single Born to Be Sold br 1989 Landslide of Love was the third single to be taken from Transvision Vamp s second album Velveteen album Velveteen . It was a Top 20 UK hit in 1989, spending five weeks on the UK Singles Chart and peaking at 14. Track listing 7 vinyl small TVV 8 TVVP 8 small ref http www.discogs.com Transvision Vamp Landslide Of Love release 1020072 ref Landslide of Love 3 50 Hardtime Anthony Doughty 3 37 He s the Only One for Me Dave Parsons 3 32 small A limited edition 7 picture disc was also released TVVP 8 . small 12 vinyl small TVVT 8 TVVTG 8 small ref http www.discogs.com Transvision Vamp Landslide Of Love release 641116 ref ref http www.discogs.com Transvision Vamp Landslide Of Love release 1271528 ref Landslide of Love Extended Version 4 57 W11 Blues 4 51 Hardtime 3 37 He s the Only One for Me 3 32 small A limited edition 12 gatefold sleeve version was also released TVVTG 8 . small CD single small DTVVT 8 small ref http www.discogs.com Transvision Vamp Landslide Of Love release 825050 ref Landslide of Love 3 50 W11 Blues 4 51 Hardtime 3 37 He s the Only One for Me 3 32 small The CD label incorrectly prints Landslide of Love as Landslide of Love 7 Version . There was no edited or 7 Version . small Charts class wikitable align left Transvision Vamp 1989 align left Peak br position align left UK Singles Chart ref http ... releases Category 1989 singles DEFAULTSORT Landslide of Love ... more details
File USGS Khait landslide.jpg thumb 260px View of the Khait landslide showing the scar on Chokrak mountain and the landslide that overwhelmed the village of Khait File Khait Rockslide landsat.png thumb 260px Landsat image of the landslide The Khait or Hoit landslide occurred on July 10, 1949 in the Hoit district in the Gharm Oblast in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic Tajikistan , then part of the Soviet Union . The landslide was triggered by the 1949 Khait earthquake and buried 33 villages and has by some estimates killed 28,000 people. News of the landslide was not publicly revealed by the government and details of the disaster were not revealed until after the fall of the Soviet Union. A marble statue of a woman with her head and hands lowered and an expression of grief was later erected at the site. ref name yablokov cite journal last Yablokov first Alexander date February 2001 title The Tragedy of Khait A Natural Disaster in Tajikistan journal Mountain Research and Development publisher International Mountain Society location Berne, Switzerland volume 21 issue 1 pages 91&ndash 93 jstor 3674137 doi 10.1659 0276 4741 2000 021 0091 TTOKAN 2.0.CO 2 year 2000 ref References Reflist coord 39 10 44 N 70 52 08 E source kolossus ruwiki display title Category 1949 earthquakes Category 1949 in the Soviet Union Category Natural disasters in the Soviet Union Category Landslides Category Natural disasters in Tajikistan ru uk ... more details
A landslide dam , debris dam , or barrier lake is a natural dam ming of a river by some kind of mass wasting landslide , debris flow , rock avalanche or volcano . ref Name wr.usgs cite web title Natural ... ref If it is caused by earthquake , it may also be called a quake lake . Some landslide dams are as high ... 9 ref Causes The major causes for landslide dams investigated by 1986 are landslides from excessive ... on Landlside Dams , in Landslide Dams by the American Society of Civil Engineers , 1986, pp ... by a landslide dam may create a dam reservoir lake that may last from short times to several thousand years. ref name jansen Because of their rather loose nature and absence of controlled spillway , landslide ... by the overflow stream. ref name jansen Landslide dams are responsible for two types of flood ... little life hazard, but property damage can be substantial. Image Falling river level causing landslide 1.svg right 250px thumb Profiles of the dam reservoir and groundwater upstream the landslide dam is not shown in the figure Image Falling river level causing landslide 2.svg right 250px thumb Groundwater ... to abrupt changes in River regime river s regimen . Examples The highest known landslide dam of historic times is the Usoi Dam in modern Tajikistan created by a landslide triggered by an earthquake on February ... was formed by a 250m high landslide dam believed to be 2,200 years old. Between 1935 and 1950 the landslide .... This appears to be the first example of modification of a natural landslide for power generation ... 313 3 ref Attabad Lake in Pakistan was formed by a landslide in 2010. 100m high The Red Lake Romanian ... landslide is an example of a huge, short lived and disastrous landslide dam 60 m high . Quake Lake ... of this one of 34 landslide dams created by the magnitude 8.0 Sichuan earthquake. ref http news.xinhuanet.com ... Bot generated title ref 52m high The Ri ihuazo begun on 22 May 1960, after a landslide caused by the Great ... landslide lake outburst floods in recorded history occurred in the Sichuan province of China on 10 ... more details
orphan date November 2009 Malpa landslide was one of worst landslides in India . On 11 and 17 August 1998 at village Malpa in Pithoragarh district of Uttarkhand state about 380 people were killed when massive landslides washed away the entire village. The dead included 60 Hindu pilgrims on their way to Kailash Mansarovar lake in Tibet .The noted Indian dancer Protima Bedi was one of the pilgrims who died in the landslide. References http www.tribuneindia.com 1998 98aug30 nation.htm 6 http www.nidm.gov.in Landslides.asp http www.indianexpress.com res web pIe ie daily 19980820 23250984.html Category Landslides in India Category 1998 in India Category 1998 natural disasters Category History of Uttarakhand india stub disaster stub http uttarakhand.prayaga.org landslide.html ... more details
Citations missing article date November 2007 There have been known various classifications of landslide ... of reproduction. Differently, in landslide classification, there are great difficulties due to the fact ... and morphology, and involving genetically different material. For this reason, landslide classifications ... involved in the landslide process. For example, the distinction between earth and debris is usually ... case, it is debris . A3 Activity The classification of a landslide based on its activity is particularly ... evolution, the second term describes, in a general way, where the landslide is moving and the third ... of observation of case history or site observations. B1 The age of the movement Landslide dating is an interesting topic in the evaluation of hazard . The knowledge of the Landslide frequency is a fundamental element for any kind of probabilistic evaluation. Furthermore, the evaluation of the age of the landslide ... morphogenesis . B3 Morphological characteristics As the landslide is a geological volume with a hidden ... of formations. Consequently, it is possible to describe a landslide using the name of a site. In particular, the name will be that of the locality where the landslide happened with a specific characteristic ... to totally different geomorphology morphological evolution. As a consequence, in the description of a landslide ... of the movements In the evaluation of landslide susceptibility, causes of the wikt trigger trigger ... in landslide evolution. Structural and geological factors, as already described, can determine ... In the following table shows a schematic landslide classification adopting the classification ... image removed Image CASTELMEZZANO 1.jpg thumb 200px left Location Castelmezzano Italy. Landslide type Rock fall Image CASTELMEZZANO 3.jpg thumb 300px right Location Castelmezzano Italy. Landslide type ... canadaoikos2.jpg thumb 200px left Location Jasper National Park Canada Landslide type Topple Description ... shear strain . Varnes, 1996 Image canadaoikos1.jpg thumb 300px right Location Canada Landslide type ... more details
landslide turbidite . Submarine landslides are marine ocean marine landslide s that sediment transport ... landslide is initiated when the downwards driving stress gravity and other factors exceeds the resisting ... Landslides have different causes which relate to both the geology geological attributes of the landslide ... which leads to failure. Earthquakes triggered the Grand Banks landslide of 1929, where a 20 km sup 3 sup submarine landslide was initiated after an earthquake. ref name Mason ref name Nisbet ... that gas hydrate s lie beneath many submarine slopes and can contribute to the triggering of a landslide ... surge forward great distances, attaining landslide lengths greater than 200 km. Volcanic island ... landslide can be quite clear eg the failure of an oversteepened slope while in other cases the relationships ... of a landslide event. This is clearly seen on the Norwegian continental slope where the location ... that the landslide needed an earthquake for it to ultimately be initiated. ref name Hampton ... s, and oceanic volcanic islands and ridges. ref name Hampton Submarine landslide processes There are a variety ... C.K. and Lambiase J.J.. 2007 The Brunei slide A giant submarine landslide on the North West Borneo ... the remains of a submarine landslide. ref name Hampton ref name Locat2002 ref name Huhnerbach ref name ... of submarine cable damage was discovered in the Grand Banks slide of 1929 where the landslide ... of infrastructure occurred when Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi delta in 1969 causing a landslide ... 17, 1998, Papua New Guinea n landslide tsunami where waves up to 15 m high impacted ... hazard. This is due to the comparatively small source area of most landslide tsunami relative ..., initial acceleration, length and thickness of the contributing landslide. Volume and initial acceleration are the key factors which determine whether a landslide will form a tsunami. A sudden deceleration of the landslide may also result in larger waves. The length of the slide influences both ... more details
Image Tuveraset1.jpg 250px right thumb The Tuve landslide was a large landslide in Tuve , Gothenburg , Sweden on November 30, 1977. Some 67 houses were destroyed, killing 9, injuring about 60 and making around 600 people homeless. ref name goteborg.se cite web url http www5.goteborg.se prod tuve save dalis2.nsf vyPublicerade 30E99B73E34D8BDEC1256DA60057AC44?OpenDocument title Katastrofen i Tuve date 2007 04 02 publisher City of Gothenburg Tuve S ve language Swedish accessdate 2008 08 17 ref The slide began at 16.05 and lasted 5 6 minutes. ref name goteborg.se The slide affected 270 000 square meters 27 hectares . ref name sgu cite web url http www.sgu.se sgu eng samhalle risker skred e.htm title Landslides and gullies publisher Geological Survey of Sweden accessdate 2008 08 17 ref About 600 people lived in the area of these, approximately 200 were in the area at the time of the slide. About 100 needed help by rescue workers. ref name goteborg.se It was the most severe landslide in the modern history of Sweden. ref name sgu Close to one kilometer of the nearby road was destroyed. It is estimated that three to four million cubic meters of soil were involved in the slide. ref name goteborg.se The total economic cost of the slide has been estimated to 140 million SEK 15 million Euro EUR , 22 million USD . ref name goteborg.se Cause The slide was caused by heavy rain and an unstable slope. ref name kkuriren cite news url http www.kkuriren.se hermes article KK 20021130 27 1 3.html title Tuveraset p Hisingen kr ver tta m nniskoliv date 2002 11 30 publisher Katrineholms Kuriren language Swedish accessdate 2008 08 17 Dead link date October 2010 bot H3llBot ref ref cite book title The Landslide At Tuve, near Goteborg, Sweden On November 30, 1977 last Duncan first J.M. authorlink coauthors G. Lefebvre and P. Lade year 1980 publisher National Academy Press location Washington isbn page pages url http books.google.com books?id vY4rAAAAYAAJ accessdate 2009 08 15 ref Aftermath After ... more details
for the song by AC DC Flick of the Switch Infobox single See Wikipedia WikiProject Songs Name Landslide Cover Artist Fleetwood Mac Album Fleetwood Mac 1975 album Fleetwood Mac A side B side Format Recorded 1975 Genre Acoustic rock Length 3 19 Label Reprise Writer Stevie Nicks Producer ubl Fleetwood Mac Keith Olsen Misc Audiosample Background E6E8FA Upper caption Audio sample Audio file Landslide by Fleetwood Mac.ogg Landslide is a song written by Stevie Nicks and performed by British American music group Fleetwood Mac . It was first featured on the band s 1975 eponymous album Fleetwood Mac 1975 album Fleetwood Mac . Along with Rhiannon song Rhiannon , it would be Nicks s first original contribution to the band upon joining. A live version was released as a single 23 years later from the live reunion album The Dance Fleetwood Mac album The Dance . Song creation Nicks has said that she wrote this song while she was contemplating going back to school or continuing on with guitarist Lindsey Buckingham . Buckingham Nicks had been dropped by Polydor Records and she and Buckingham were not getting along. She wrote the song while visiting Aspen, Colorado , sitting in someone s living room looking out at the Rocky Mountains pondering the avalanche of everything that had come crashing down on us ... at that moment, my life truly felt like a landslide in many ways. ref name crystal See Stevie .... Landslide also led me to being friends with Billy Corgan and the possibility that we ll work ... Songs Name Landslide Cover Landslide Dixie Chicks.jpg Artist Dixie Chicks Album Home Dixie Chicks ... single Long Time Gone br 2002 This single Landslide br 2002 Next single Travelin Soldier br 2003 Misc The country music country group Dixie Chicks then covered Landslide on their 2002 Home Dixie Chicks ... it. Charts Dixie Chicks Landslide debuted at 32 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks ... Category Songs produced by Lloyd Maines es Landslide gl Landslide ... more details
a landslide victory. Micah completes his tasks and, exhausted, asks if he can finally go home ... a poignant speech A Landslide victory landslide , that s what they re calling it , he proudly ... face, he mutters to himself Boom. Ratings In the 18 49 demographic, Landslide earned a 5.2 13 ratings ... 2007 05 beemans blog episode 22 landslide this.html Beaming Beeman Episode 22 Landslide , Director ... 2007 television episodes Category Television episodes about elections sw Landslide Heroes ... more details
Cleanup date May 2008 Citations missing date May 2008 Landslide mitigation refers to lessening the effect ... of the evolution of the occurred landslide. It is therefore pointless, for the purpose of planning landslide hazard mitigation measures, to classify the work as a function of the phenomenon or of more ... which, at different times, contribute to the occurrence of the landslide. Therefore, slope stabilisation ... or deep rotational landslide, in which the landslide surface at the top submerges and describes ... as a cutting or infill point. Where the buried shape of the old landslide is complicated ... on the increase in Safety Factor will be reduced in relationship to the size of the landslide ... mobilise the existing or potential creep plane of the landslide. Generally, infilling at the foot of the landslide ... probability of interfering with the interaction of the individual landslide elements. An important aspect ... are obtained by modelling the land itself around the body of the landslide large ground ditches ... tubes These provisions will serve the purpose of avoiding penetration of the landslide body by circulating ... hillside movement is foreseen as shallow landslide affecting the ground to a depth of about 5 ... Drainage galleries constitute a rather expensive stabilisation provision for large, deep landslide ... of the mechanical characteristics of the ground volume affected by landslide through chemical, thermal ... of this type proves effective in cases of not very extensive landslide. The effectiveness of solutions with micropiles is linked to the possibility of inserting micropiles over the whole width of the landslide ... the resisting moment by friction on the upper part of the pile shaft found in the landslide. This functionality ... characterisations of rather precise potential landslide material. Nailing The soil nailing ... by landslide by means of chemical, thermal or mechanical treatment Among the treatments belonging to the group ... to the slope and tensioned. It is a cost effective approach. See also Landslide classification ... more details
Infobox Book name Landslide title orig translator image image Landslide.JPG 200px Ideally 1st edition cover image caption 2001 paperback edition author Desmond Bagley illustrator cover artist country United Kingdom language English language English series genre Thriller genre Thriller Novel publisher House of Stratus release date 1967 media type Print Hardcover & Paperback pages 274 pgs isbn 1 84232 014 9 preceded by Wyatt s Hurricane followed by The Vivero Letter novel The Vivero Letter Landslide is a novel written by English people English author Desmond Bagley , and was first published in 1967 in literature 1967 . Plot summary This story revolves around the protagonist , Bob Boyd, who is a geologist and works in British Columbia timber country. He has no memory of his past following a terrible auto accident. At the start of the novel he arrives in a small town Fort Farrell, located in the northeastern British Columbia to perform a small job for the Matterson Corporation. By chance he happens to see the name of the square in the town Trinavant Square, which brings back some memories to him. After consulting the town newspaper he confirms that this is the place where John Trinavant used to live. He learns from a local reporter, McDougall Mac that John Trinavant used to be a big businessman in Fort Farrell about ten years ago with the elder Matterson Bull Matterson. However at that time John Trinavant had died in an auto crash along with his son Frank and wife. There was a fourth person found in the car driven by the Trinavants Robert B. Grant who has presumed to be a hitchhiker travelling with them. After meeting with the head of the Matterson Corporation, Howard Matterson son of Bull Matterson , Bob plans to start a survey of the land owned by the Matterson Corporation in the nearby forest where the Mattersons were planning to build a dam and wanted to get their land surveyed for any precious minerals. Bob starts the survey and comes across a Miss Clare Trinavant who ... more details
orphan date January 2009 2000 Mumbai landslide is the landslide in Ghatkopar suburbs of Mumbai in July 2000 that killed 67 people and injured many. ref http www.tribuneindia.com 2000 20000714 main2.htm ref The landslide was the result of land erosion following heavy rains. ref http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi world south asia 831267.stm ref References Reflist Category Landslides in India Category 2000 in India Mumbai Landslide, 2000 Category 2000 natural disasters Mumbai Landslide, 2000 Category History of Mumbai disaster stub india hist stub ... more details
Unreferenced date August 2007 The 2006 Kampung Pasir landslide was a landslide that occurred on 31 May 2006, in Kampung Pasir , Ulu Klang , Selangor , Malaysia . coord missing Malaysia DEFAULTSORT Kampung Pasir landslide 2006 Category Disasters in Malaysia Category Landslides in Malaysia Category 2006 natural disasters Category 2006 in Malaysia Malaysia stub ... more details
The 2003 Derrybrien landslide was a landslide which fell on 16 October 2003. The landslide ruined the construction of a 71 turbine wind farm. ref http www.woodlandleague.org communities derrybrien ref It killed around 50,000 fish according to an estimate by Shannon Regional Fisheries Board and dislodged 450,000 cubic metres of peat. ref http www.rte.ie news 2008 0703 derrybrien.html?radiobutton Google EU court rules against Ireland on Derrybrien RTE News, updated 3 July 2008 ref References Reflist Category Natural disasters in Ireland Category 2003 in Ireland Derrybrien Landslide, 2003 Category History of County Galway de Moorausbruch von Derrybrien ... more details
Expand Malay Tanah runtuh Bukit Antarabangsa 2008 June 2010 date June 2010 Coord 3.13 101.68 display title The 2008 Bukit Antarabangsa landslide was a landslide that occurred on 6 December 2008, in Bukit Antarabangsa , Ulu Klang , Selangor , Malaysia . Four people were killed and more than eight others are feared buried in a landslide in Bukit Antarabangsa, Ulu Klang, near Kuala Lumpur . The landslide, which is believed to have buried 14 bungalows in Taman Bukit Mewah and Taman Bukit Utama, occurred at about 4 a.m. Malaysian Standard Time MST . ref cite web url http thestar.com.my news story.asp?file 2008 12 7 nation 2746257&sec nation title Ampang s Hill of Death accessdate 10 December 2008 work publisher The Star date 7 December 2008 ref Aftermath Empty section date June 2010 References references Related events The landslide occurred just five days ahead of the 15th anniversary of the Highland Towers collapse , which located approximately 1.5 km away. DEFAULTSORT 2008 Bukit Antarabangsa Landslide Category Disasters in Malaysia Category Landslides in Malaysia Category 2008 natural disasters Bukit Antarabangsa landslide Category 2008 in Malaysia Bukit Antarabangsa Landslide, 2008 Malaysia stub id Longsor Bukit Antarabangsa 2008 ms Tanah runtuh Bukit Antarabangsa 2008 wuu 2008 ... more details
Image Mbale District Uganda.png thumb The location of Mbale within Uganda. Image Large Landslide in Uganda.jpg thumb Satellite image of the landslide and surrounding area. The 2010 Uganda landslide occurred ... landslide hits east Uganda cite news url http news.bbc.co.uk 1 hi world africa 8545005.stm title Deadly landslide hits east Uganda date 2010 03 02 publisher BBC News accessdate 2 March 2010 ref ref ... ref The landslide was triggered by heavy rain between 12 pm and 7 pm that day. ref name 51 die, 300 missing in Bududa landslide cite news url http www.monitor.co.ug News National 688334 871634 wj4p83 title 51 die, 300 missing in Bududa landslide first David Mafabi date March 2 2010 publisher .... ref name Deadly landslide hits east Uganda Casualties A spokesman for Uganda Red Cross Society the Ugandan ... has put the death toll at over 100. ref name 45 dead, hundreds missing in Uganda landslide minister ... 45 dead, hundreds missing in Uganda landslide minister date 2010 03 02 publisher Washington Post ... in landslide in eastern Uganda cite web url http news.xinhuanet.com english2010 world 2010 03 02 c 13194463.htm title Fifty bodies found in landslide in eastern Uganda date 2010 03 02 publisher Xinhua ... centre that was subsequently destroyed. ref name Deadly landslide hits east Uganda Effects The landslide ... in landslide in eastern Uganda Many areas in the affected villages were buried by the landslides, with houses, markets, and a church destroyed many roads were also blocked. ref name Deadly landslide hits east Uganda ref name Some 350 people missing in Uganda landslide cite web url http www.thejakartaglobe.com ... landslide date 2010 03 02 publisher Jakarta Globe accessdate 2 March 2010 ref Officials and aid .... ref cite news url http uk.reuters.com article idUKLDE621183. CH .2420 title Ugandan landslide ... 51 die, 300 missing in Bududa landslide ref http allafrica.com stories 201003020769.html ref Emergency ... missing in Uganda landslide minister Michael Nataka, the Uganda Red Cross Secretary General, has ... more details
refimprove date January 2012 On January 10, 2005, a major landslide occurred in the town of La Conchita, California . The landslide killed 10 people, and destroyed or damaged dozens of houses. The landslide occurred on part of a previous landslide that occurred in 1995. Setting La Conchita is a small community, located on the southern California coastline between Ventura, California Ventura and Santa Barbara, California Santa Barbara . The community lies on a narrow strip of land about 250 meters 800 feet wide between the shoreline and abutting a 180 meter 600 foot high bluff. The top of the bluff is covered by avocado and citrus orchards. The bluff above La Conchita has a slope of approximately 35 degrees and consists of poorly cemented marine sediments. Geologic evidence indicates that landslides ... 1067 508of05 1067.html title Landslide Hazards at La Conchita, California accessdate 2011 03 09 ref ... 12 miles northeast of La Conchita from October 1 through March 3 the day before the landslide occurred ... to be approximately 1.3 million cubic meters of sediment. The landslide slumped as a coherent mass of material. Based on the opinion that surface water infiltration from irrigation contributed to the landslide ... not responsible. 2005 La Conchita landslide The 2005 La Conchita Landslide occurred at the end of a 15 ... of the 1995 landslide deposit failed, resulting in shallow, rapid fluid flow, unlike the 1995 landslide. The volume of the landslide was estimated to be approximately 200,000 cubic meters with a surface area of 350 meters 1,150 feet long and 80 100 meters 260 330 feet wide. The landslide destroyed ... in the 2005 La Conchita Landslide filed a lawsuit against the La Conchita Ranch Co., located at the top ... of its orchards during torrential rains and settled the suit. Three years after the 2005 landslide ... of the landslide caused or contributed to the landslide. Ultimately, the County prevailed against ... or impact La Conchita. Future landslide activity could occur in the areas of the 1995 and 2005 ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Life Becoming a Landslide EP Type EP Artist Manic Street Preachers Cover LifeBecomingALandslide.jpg Released February 7, 1994 Recorded Outside Studios , Checkendon Checkendon, England January March, 1993 Genre Alternative rock Length Label Epic Records Epic Producer Dave Eringa Last album Roses in the Hospital br 1993 This album Life Becoming a Landslide EP br 1994 Next album Faster P.C.P. br 1994 Life Becoming a Landslide is an EP by the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers . The title track is taken from their second album Gold Against the Soul . It remains an important insight into the mindset of the band s lyricist guitarist Richey James Edwards Richey Edwards , and a poignant exploration of the metamorphosis of child and adult roles. Certain lines in the song, such as My idea of love comes from a childhood glimpse of pornography, exemplify this. It could also be seen as a precursor to the fully orchestrated, epic sound the band would adopt after Edwards disappearance, ironically precluded by the aggressive guitar sound of the seminal The Holy Bible album The Holy Bible album. The EP is noted for its b side Comfort Comes the first Manics track to explore the raw, claustrophobic, cold yet impassioned aesthetic which would be illustrated on The Holy Bible . The release reached 36 in the UK charts in February 1994. Track listing CD Life Becoming a Landslide Comfort Comes Are Mothers Saints? Charles Windsor McCarthy band McCarthy cover 12 Life Becoming a Landslide Comfort Comes Are Mothers Saints? MC Life Becoming a Landslide Comfort Comes Manic Street Preachers Category Manic Street Preachers songs Category 1994 EPs ... more details
types also accelerate landslide cloudy. List of victims List of 16 deaths Mohd Kamarul Amizan, 11 ... references DEFAULTSORT 2011 Hulu Langat Landslide Category Disasters in Malaysia Category Landslides in Malaysia Category 2011 natural disasters Hulu Langat landslide Category 2011 in Malaysia Hulu Langat Landslide ms Tanah runtuh Hulu Langat 2011 Malaysia stub ... more details
The Pantai Remis landslide occurred on 21 October 1993, near Pantai Remis in Perak , Malaysia . The landslide took place in an abandoned open pit mining open cast tin Mining mine close to the coast. This area of Malaysia is well known for its tin mining industry. ref name LDP cite web url http www.american.edu TED tin.htm title TED Case Studies Tin Mining In Malaysia Present And Future publisher Trade Environment Database accessdate 2008 09 14 ref Video footage shows the rapid collapse of the working face closest the sea, allowing complete flooding of the mine and forming a new cove measuring approximately 0.5 by 0.5km. YouTube video A video of the event was uploaded to You Tube on 17 May 2007. The accompanying description in Cantonese reads blockquote That year, I received a call by the owner of a tin mine. He said that his mine, which had been running for a few decades, was about to collapse. I rushed to the scene with my video camera and waited for a few hours. Finally, I took this valuable footage. Although the footage lasted only a few minutes, it is horribly exciting enough. I hope that this video can let you all appreciate the consequence of ruining our environment . blockquote Professor Dave Petley, the Wilson Chair in Hazard and Risk in the Department of Geography at the University of Durham , England and founder and director of the International Landslide Centre, described the recording as the best landslide video he had ever seen, despite its poor quality. ref name DP cite web url http daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com 2008 05 sichuan what does landslide look like.html title Sichuan what does a landslide look like in reality? publisher Dave Petley accessdate 2008 09 14 ref References Reflist External links http uk.youtube.com watch?v H6Ma0SVjMHA The YouTube video of the event http daveslandslideblog.blogspot.com 2008 05 sichuan what does landslide look like.html ... 100 36 21.32 E display title DEFAULTSORT Pantai Remis landslide 1993 Category 1993 mining disasters ... more details
Image Gros Venture Slide.JPG thumb right 300px Gros Ventre landslide The Gros Ventre landslide IPAc en icon r o v n t respell groh vahnt is located in the Gros Ventre Wilderness of Bridger Teton National Forest , Wyoming , United States . The Gros Ventre landslide is convert 7 mi east of Jackson Hole valley and Grand Teton National Park . The landslide occurred on June 23, 1925, following the melt from a heavy snowpack and several weeks of heavy rain. Approximately convert 50000000 cuyd m3 abbr on of primarily sedimentary rock slid down the north face of Sheep Mountain Teton County, Wyoming Sheep Mountain , crossed over the Gros Ventre River and raced up the opposing mountainside a distance of convert 300 ft . The landslide created a huge dam over convert 200 ft high and convert 400 yd wide across the Gros Ventre River, backing up the water and forming Lower Slide Lake . On May 18, 1927, a portion of the landslide dam failed, and resulting in a massive flood that was convert 6 ft deep for at least convert 25 mi downstream. The small town of Kelly, Wyoming Kelly , six miles 10 km downstream, was wiped out killing six people. It is one of the world s largest known examples of recent mass wasting events aside from volcanic eruptions. Slide Lake is now much smaller than before the flood but is considered an outstanding location for boating and fishing. Today, the landslide is partially reclaimed by the surrounding forest but is still an obvious landmark from many vantage points in the Jackson Hole valley. It is easily accessible by traveling north from Jackson, Wyoming or south from Moran Junction, Wyoming Moran, Wyoming and then taking the Antelope Flats road east off U.S. Route 26 . External links cite web last U.S. Forest Service first authorlink coauthors year url http www.fs.fed.us r4 btnf recreation grosventre.shtml title Recreational Activities Gros Ventre Wilderness format work Bridger Teton National Forest publisher accessdate 2006 07 11 cite web ... more details
The Aldercrest Banyon landslide was a major slow moving landslide in the east Kelso, Washington neighborhood of Aldercrest beginning in early 1998 through 1999. The disaster ended up being one of the worst urban landslides in United States history in terms of cost. The landslide is one of the most famous in Washington state Washington state , which has many landslides due to its mountainous terrain. The Aldercrest Banyon landslide was the first landslide disaster in the United States that the Federal Emergency Management Agency FEMA to be declared an official disaster area. ref name Prevention cite web url http www.agiweb.org geotimes feb07 feature prevention.html title Prevention Is the Best Medicine Doing Site Evaluations to Prevent Geological Hazard Catastrophes publisher GeoTimes author ... accessdate 1 July 2011 ref It is built on an ancient landslide that may have occurred during the Missoula ... Formation. In the area of the landslide, along a northwest southeast trending ridge about one ... as the Cowlitz Formation. These areas are known for landslide activity. ref name GroundMovement ... of the slope is the Coweeman River . The Landslide Following 3.5 years of above average rainfall .... Logging operations at the toe of the landslide may also have contributed to the reactivation ... separation of 30 feet by June 1998. The landslide is about 3000 feet 915 m wide by 1500 feet ... limits of the landslide and during the winter of 1998 1999, 3 more homes were swallowed up. The maximum ... title Aldercrest Banyon Landslide Kelso, Washington 1998 99 publisher University of Missouri Rolla ... to buy out 127 homeowners at 30 cents on the dollar. This was the second largest landslide disaster in US history involving homes on a landslide. The largest was the 1956 Portuguese Bend Portuguese Bend Landslide in Palos Verdes Hills of Southern California , when 130 homes were destroyed. ref ... landslide inventory and slope stability mapping project. In total, 260 square miles 680 km2 of urbanizing ... more details
The Swift Creek Landslide is an active, slow moving landslide located in western Washington U.S. state ... originating from the landslide has recently generated much interest in this area. The reasons why ... handling and disposal regulations. Swift Creek Landslide side view from west side http www.wwu.edu ... and wave erosion. ref name ecy.wa.gov The Swift Creek Landslide is thought to be a smaller reactivation of an older and larger landslide in that area perhaps an earthquake set the older, then static landslide into motion. Dynamics This landslide is roughly half a kilometer in width, and 1.5 kilometers long. The depth of the landslide is approximately 100 meters. The velocity of the landslide varies ..., D., Mckenzie Johnson, A 2003 Dynamics of the swift creek landslide, northwest Washington. Geological ... of the landslide because it is over steepened and constantly sliding, providing no stable area for trees to grow. The trees that are growing on the sides and front of the landslide are tilted ... ground. At the head of the landslide, there is pronounced WIKT scarp scarping , and on the sides ..., just above the topples of the slide, the trees are moving in motion with the landslide. The soil ..., which is an indicator of how fast this landslide is moving. If this landslide was moving slowly the rain ... after rainfall and the cracks were pronounced up to 1 cm in width. The main ingredient in this landslide .... As the weathering of this place was happening, the landslide started to slip away from the face ... the conglomerate bedrock and the serpentinite above, the Swift Creek Landslide is moving at a much faster rate. Logging at Swift Creek It is not known what caused the landslide to reactivate. Sumas ... the landslide by a company called great western timber. This could have large effects at which the rate of this landslide moves per year. If you have too much logging the water is going to either sit ... of the landslide itself would cause the soil to be less and less likely to stay together. Picking up ... more details
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