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landslide

[land-slahyd] / ˈlændˌslaɪd /
NOUN
landslip
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It comes as efforts to recover bodies continues on the Nepal-Tibet border, where more than 6,000 people are still missing after a massive flood and landslide in August.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

The Bills made it through the first two weeks without committing a turnover, then survived a landslide Sunday.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026

The resulting landslide and tsunami caused eight deaths, according to a reconstruction published in Natural Hazards.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

Preliminary calculations based on the seismic signal the landslide produced indicate that the ice-and-rock avalanche in Nepal was likely 10 times the volume of the one in Blatten, said Schwanghart.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

Someone else had heard that a landslide could send all the water in Spirit Lake down into the valley.

From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone

Meanwhile, trekking guide Tse Ring Doma said she and her group had to cross 28 landslides.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

Last year, the line was closed for a month for repairs designed to protect against landslides.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Massive floods and landslides swept through border towns and villages in Nepal and Tibet, wiping out thousands of houses, destroying energy infrastructure and leaving thousands dead or missing.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Not all disasters are foreseeable but those that relate to geology, like landslides and glacier collapses, can often be detected early in the data, if there is capacity to spot the pattern.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

There are remnants of landslides running down the inside of toilet bowls.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

“Even a moderate earthquake could cause a local-source tsunami from submarine landsliding in Monterey Bay,” public documents say.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2025

“The weaker alluvial sediments can amplify shaking, and mountains are vulnerable to landsliding, including along the roads that lead to mountain villages.”

From National Geographic ● Sep. 11, 2023

"When the glaciers melted the sediment was no longer supported by the ice margins, so in places it can be susceptible to landsliding."

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2020

Says Norge President Judson S. Sayre: "The way orders are landsliding, we could be sold out for the year by October 15."

From Time Magazine Archive




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