landslide
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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
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
Firefighters in Kanagawa prefecture said they received a call from a man who reported his house had been crushed by a landslide.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
The resulting landslide and tsunami caused eight deaths, according to a reconstruction published in Natural Hazards.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
Back in Pennsylvania, he had written a report predicting a giant landslide.
From "Mountain of Fire" by Rebecca E. F. Barone
"Considerable flash flooding and landslides are also possible across the Southern Appalachians," it warned in a briefing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
Sections of railway in coastal Orange County have repeatedly shut down for landslides, coastal erosion and rockfalls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Meanwhile, trekking guide Tse Ring Doma said she and her group had to cross 28 landslides.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
Another wave of landslides and heavy rain have killed about 30 people in Nepal, as the Himalayan nation reels from August's catastrophic flooding that left 1,400 dead and thousands more missing.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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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