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Highway 1 is closed indefinitely from Palo Colorado Road to Rocky Creek Bridge, the California Department of Transportation said on social media after a new landslide eroded part of the roadway.
near Wrangell, Alaska: 6 dead A landslide buried homes and a portion of the Zimovia Highway in a remote area in Southeast Alaska 11 miles (18 km) south of Wrangell, killing a family of five and their adult neighbor. [237] The slide was 450 feet (137.2 m) wide when it crossed the highway. About 20 people were rescued from the area. [238] [239]
Rhine cutting through Flims rockslide debris. The Flims rockslide happened about 10,000 years ago (8000 BC) in eastern Switzerland. It is the largest known landslide in the Alps, [1] [2] and the biggest worldwide whose effects are still visible, moving some 12 km 3 (2.9 cu mi) of rock, about 300 times that of the historic Swiss Goldau landslide.
A slide is the movement of a body of material that generally remains intact while moving over one or several inclined surfaces or thin layers of material (also called shear zones) in which large deformations are concentrated. Slides are also sub-classified by the form of the surface(s) or shear zone(s) on which movement happens.
The mid-morning Sierra slide had forced an emergency closure. Update: Caltrans crews reopen Highway 50 after rock slide near Kyburz in Sierra Nevada Skip to main content
The West Salt Creek landslide (also known as the Grand Mesa landslide or West Salt Creek rock avalanche) occurred on the evening of May 25, 2014 near Collbran, Colorado, along the north side of the Grand Mesa, about 30 miles (48 km) east of Grand Junction. It was the largest landslide in Colorado's history.
The riders who had seen the videos of 110-pound (50 kg) sandbags flying off the rafts went on anyway. One local judge told Esquire later that she rode the water slide ten times that day, and an employee who had loaded the sandbags during testing said he went down twenty times over its first two days. "That should tell you something about how I ...
Emme Nye describes herself as “that annoying mom," who allows her kids to climb slides. “I’m so passionate about it, I will get in verbal disagreements at the park with parents about why ...