Landslides

Landslides (also Extreme Rain Events and  Floods)

Links to Landslide Articles Posted both on Fire-Earth and EDRO are Listed Below:

[For additional information, search blog  content using   keywords: “storms,” “extreme rain events,” “floods,” “flooding,” “mudslides,” “landslides,” “quake,” and “earthquake”]

2010 Likely the Most Disastrous Year on Record: FEWW

• 2010: The Year of Disasters
• 2010: Year One of Human-Enhanced Disasters [More Landslide Events Posted Under the Corresponding Months – See Links]

• Landslides claim six in Eastern Uganda [May 17]
• Landslide hits Italy’s Apennine mountains, 60 people evacuated
• Ecologists assess impact on wildlife after landslide into River Lossie

• Landslides Kill Dozens of People Posted on May 4, 2010

• Landslide kills at least 10 in Kenya April 30, 2010
• Landslide News April 28, 2010
• Landslide and sinkhole close part of U.S. 64 April 28, 2010

• Taiwan Massive Landslide Buries 6-Lane Freeway Posted on April 26, 2010
• Valley of the Rocks Avalanche: Deafening Thunder Posted on April 23, 2010
• Mudslide Buries Chemical Factory in China Posted on April 22, 2010
• Super-destructive events may strike anytime Posted on April 15, 2010

• Dozens killed in South Asian Storm Posted on April 14, 2010
• Deadly Tsunami in Andes Lake, Peru Posted on April 13, 2010
• Italy Mudslide Derails Train, killing 12, injuring 25 Posted on April 12, 2010
• Rio Disaster Update Posted on April 9, 2010
• Death Toll in Rio Landslides Rises Posted on April 8, 2010

• Deadly Flooding in Rio de Janeiro State, 100 killed [April 7, 2010]
• Peru Mudslide: 30 killed, 54 injured, 25 missing Posted on April 3, 2010
• Landslide News Posted on April 1, 2010

• 2010 Disaster Calender [April] Posted on April 1, 2010
• Severe Storm Batters Perth, Australia
• Flood Disaster Unfolding in Pakistan
• Another landslide looming in Bududa, Uganda
• Earth Unhappiest Planet to Live on: Majority

• Ready to Welcome Climate Refugees?
• 2010 Disaster Calender [March]
• 2010 Disaster Calender [February]
• Death Toll Rises in Indonesia Landslide
• West Java landslide buries village, 5 killed, 72 missing

• Floods Kill 32 on Portuguese Island of Madeira
• Ongoing Seismicity, More Avalanches in Calif, Alaska
• Italian Town Buried by Mud Avalanche
• Calif Rainstorm, Mid-Atlantic Snowstorm Update
• More Rain in the West, Snow in the East

• The Storms Attack on California
• Mudslide, California 012010
• Carmageddon: Nature’s Dislike for Things on Wheels
• 2010 Disaster Calender [January]
• California: Powerful new storm sails ashore

• Bolivia declares a national emergency
• Earthquake, Heavy Rain, Mudslides Strike Peru
• Strong Earthquake Strikes Offshore Guatemala
• Solomon Isles Tsunami Destroyed Several Villages
• Extreme Rain Events, Floods, Mudslides 2010
• 2010: The Year of Disasters

• Kenya Deadly Deluge Wreaks Havoc
• Solomon Isles Tsunami Destroyed Several Villages [landslides reported on two islands]
  
• Extreme Rain Events, Floods, Mudslides 2010

• FEWW FORECAST: 2009 Likely Wettest Year on Record

• Recent Climate-Related Disasters
• El Salvador Devastated by New Onslaught of Landslides

• Deadly Landslides in Peru Causes Many Deaths, Injuries
• Mirinae Carved a Path of Death and Mayhem in Vietnam
• Typhoon LUPIT: Cruel, Harsh, or Wicked?
• Typhoon LUPIT Update – 17 Oct 2009
• LUPIT: The Mercy Storm?

• Mirinae: Philippines Phlooded
• Philippines Terminally Impacted?
• When Will Global Food Shortages Begin Biting

• Philippines Still Flooded
• US Southeast floods kill at least 10

• Nature’s Assault on Cars Continues
• Landslide Consumes Homes in Germany
• Climate Change, Earthquakes, Volcanic Eruptions
• Landslides continue wreaking havoc in Colombia, Indonesia…

• The Power of Chaitén Volcano
• Volcanoes, Santorini Eruption and Crops Failure in China
• Chaitén Volcano Still Active

• Parts of pyroplastic chamber fall around Chaitén volcano
• RESIDENTS IN CHILE VOLCANO ZONE WITHOUT DRINKING WATER
• CHILE VOLCANO ZONE MAY BE PERMANENTLY UNLIVABLE

• Volcano gets active, region is evacuated
• Thousands evacuated as Chile volcano spews ash
• Will one or both of New Zealand islands break up and sink in the south-western Pacific Ocean?

• Chile: Volcano activity prompts mass evacuation
• A Shrinking World: Salmon and livestock removed from Chaiten volcano range

• The First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities
• Ghost towns

• The Day Temps Plunged by 22°C [9 Sept 2009]
• Nature Rejects More Cars
• Nature’s Assault on Cars Continues
• Car burial day in S. Korea
• Drought and Deluge

• China Crumbles
• Phew, It Was a Jungle Out There!
• Brazil Floods
• May 2009 Mudslides
• Floods and Mudslides

• Galeras Volcano Erupts Again
• Llaima Volcano Erupts Explosively
• Image of the Day: Mudslide on Whidbey Island
• Image of the Day: Austrian Avalanche
• Image of the Day: Tartagal Landslide

• Guatemala landslide kills 45, with 140 missing
• Brazil’s Extreme Rain Events Trigger 4,000 Landslides
• Colombia’s Nevado del Huila Eruption Kills 12

• Hurricane Paloma strengthens near Grand Cayman
• Heavy Rains Flood Central Japan
• The Climate Change Crusades

• TVA Spill Update [coal ash/water sludge slide]

• 2008 second worst year for disaster losses
• Brazil’s Extreme Rain Events Trigger 4,000 Landslides
• Hundreds of millions worldwide face disaster

• Floods leave 2.5% of Colombia’s population homeless [Dec 15, 2008]
• Brazil’s Extreme Rain Events Trigger 4,000 Landslides [Dec 1, 2008]

• Flooding hits Ireland after record August rainfall [Aug 18, 2008]
• South Asia monsoon rains kill 147 as thousands rescued [Aug 18, 2008]

• I’m a War President, Not a Weatherman!
• UNEP Issues Some CO2 Reduction Snakeoil!

• Early “Dividends” of Climate Change
• Environmental Disasters: Too Close for Comfort?
• Could Food and Fuel Riots Break Out Across the U.S.?

• Mississippi Levees Breached in 23 Places
• China “Frankenstein”
• 350 or 450ppm? Neither, Actually!

• Greenland Ice Melt Faster Than IPCC Estimates
• Only Zero Emissions Would Avert Dangerous Warming
• Stern Report: “a great toxic dump of doublespeak in truly Orwellian fashion”
• UN Hypocrisy: Kick the CO2 Habit!
• The myth of keeping CO2 under 450ppm

• Tornado Kills 4 Scouts
• US Tornado Brief
• Deadly Storms Hit US Midsection

• Powerful storms kill 8 in Iowa and Minnesota
• Will 2008 be year of the tornadoes, too?
• 2008: Year of the Fire

• The Climate Change Crusades

• US Tornado Brief
• UN Hypocrisy: Kick the CO2 Habit!
• Will California turn to desert by 2011?

• Italy: Submerged in Floodwaters, Sinking in Garbage

• Future in the Making: A Shrinking World
• Flood Puts City in Iowa ‘at God’s Mercy’ Iowa, June 12, 2008

• Sea level rise in Bangladesh threatens coastal population
• Brazilian floods kill 34, leave 190,000 homeless
• Rainfall continues to slow spring field work

• China Under Siege
• A Fast-Warming World
• Central US Floods
  

• Index of Human Impact on Nature

External Links:

• Landslides USGS (index page)
• Recent Landslides (USGS index page)
  
• Land degradation threatens 1.5 billion people [see also additional links on this page]
• Floods [Index page]
• Early “Dividends” of Climate Change
• 500 Weather-Related Disasters A Year
• First Wave of World’s Collapsing Cities

News Links:

• Major Landslide Closes Road East Of Cedar City, Utah [see images]
  

• Heavy rain wreaks havoc in Oregon
• Landslide blocks U.S. 26 near Alder Creek