rockslide
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A section of Malibu Canyon Road was closed following a rockslide Friday evening, and was not expected to reopen before Monday, according to the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
Authorities in California have cleared a rockslide that was blocking a road, by using explosives.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2024
After hiking 886 feet, I was eyeing one historic abandoned fjord farm, Skageflå, where, before it was partially destroyed in an 1873 rockslide, parents tied ropes around children so they wouldn’t fall into the fjord.
From National Geographic ● Oct. 20, 2023
The rockslide took place in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve on the western shore of the Dead Sea, a popular tourist site.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 24, 2023
She was about to ask Percy how he had jumped so far when she heard the skittering of a rockslide in the hills to their left.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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