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rockslide

noun as in landslide

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The vast majority of the scenic highway has reopened after damage during back-to-back years of extremely heavy rainfall, including two other landslides around Regent’s slide and a rockslide near the Rocky Creek Bridge.

On March 30, a rockslide below Highway 1 south of the Rocky Creek Bridge left the southbound lane partially undermined and impassable, the governor’s office said.

But before we can step forward or backward or duck or even cover our heads, we are showered by a rockslide.

The dog picked through boulders and rubble in the Taiwanese national park, looking for victims trapped or buried by the rockslides that had followed a 7.4-magnitude earthquake.

In January 2021, a storm caused similar damage to a stretch of the highway, and portions were closed after heavy rains threatened to set off mudslides and rockslides.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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