landslide
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Moon, who was first elected in the 2024 Labour landslide following a career in communications and marketing, said the business folded due to unforeseen external market pressures and "despite the best efforts of staff".
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
In January 2024, a landslide above the railroad sent soil and debris crashing onto the tracks at Mariposa Point, destroying the city’s pedestrian bridge and beach trail and temporarily interrupting rail service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
In this amount of time, seismic waves in the surrounding area can indicate the rough size of the landslide and whether it occurred near open water.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Former British Prime Minister Keir Starmer had to step down just over two years after his July 2024 landslide election victory.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Yet the words of one scientist, over a possible landslide and eruption, were hard to reconcile with the evidence the mountain was providing firsthand.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
We believe there is an obvious role for alert systems, but only if scientists have a better understanding of where and when landslides are likely to occur.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
But a curious pattern has emerged in recent years: Multiple major landslides have occurred precisely at the terminus of a retreating glacier.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2026
Her working-class neighborhood was badly damaged in earlier storms this year — with homes flooded and landslides wiping out streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
Temperatures in the Himalayan region are rising faster than the global average, accelerating glacier retreat and permafrost thaw and contributing to growing risks of landslides, rockfalls, avalanches and glacial lake outburst floods.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
The twin cascades of dirt, rock, ice, and water were the largest landslides ever recorded anywhere in the world.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
“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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