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Landslide
A landslide or landslip is a geological phenomenon which includes a wide range of ground movement, such as rockfalls, deep failure of slopes and shallow debris flows, which can occur in offshore, coastal and onshore environments...
Timeline of Events
1963
10.9.1963
In northeast Italy, over 2,000 people are killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam causes a giant wave of water to overtop it.
1970
5.31.1970
The Ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of Yungay, Peru; more than 47,000 people are killed.
1971
3.18.1971
In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
2000
11.17.2000
A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills 7, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years.
2010
4.12.2010
A train derailed near Merano, Italy, after running into a landslide, causing nine deaths and injuring 28 people.