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At Least 40 Killed in Colombia Landslide
Images taken by the Colombian Air Force show some of the destruction caused by the landslide, May 18, 2015. | Photo: @FuerzaAereaCol
With many reported missing, the death toll is expected to rise
Indonesia landslide kills 18, leaves 90 missing
Rescuers remove the body of a victim of landslides that swept away houses in Jemblung village, Central Java, Indonesia, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2014. Scores of people died and more than 100 are missing following landslides caused by heavy rain in central Indonesia on Friday, local government officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Bayu Nur)
Eight dead as landslides hit Japan’s Hiroshima, 13 missing
An aerial view shows several landslides that swept through a residential area at Asaminami ward in Hiroshima, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo August 20, 2014. Mandatory credit REUTERS/Kyodo
Bihar government evacuates 20,000 people over threats of Kosi River flood; 1.5 lakh (lakh = one hundred thousand) people to be evacuated by today
Landslide blocks river in northern Nepal; 8 dead
Chandrakant Zanjare, who said he lost 13 family members to a landslide, wails near the site where his house stood in Malin village, in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP / Rafiq Maqbool)
Pune, India landslide: 15 feared dead, more than 150 buried under debris
Gujarat and Maharashtra were lashed with rains.
Death toll rises to 10 in Colombia mine collapse
Rescuers work on the removal of sludge during the rescue of a group of miners in a gold mine that collapsed in San Antonio, Colombia Photo: GETTY IMAGES
More bodies pulled out of collapsed illegal gold mine in Colombia with at least six more people feared to have perished in the disaster
Landslide Brings Down 40,000 Truck Loads of Dirt
No one was reported injured in the slide, which happened at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
COUPEVILLE, Wash. — Twenty properties on a scenic island hillside were damaged by the massive landslide in Washington state that displaced 200,000 cubic yards of earth, or about 40,000 dump truck loads, officials said Thursday.
Not all the affected properties suffered structural damage – some lost portions of their yards, said Christopher Schwarzen, a Snohomish County spokesman drafted to assist Island County.
Thirty-five homes were initially evacuated after Wednesday’s slide on Whidbey Island, 50 miles north of Seattle. One home was destroyed, and four homes remained under evacuation orders Thursday night. No one was injured.
The slide severely damaged one home and isolated or threatened more than 30 on the island, about 50 miles north of Seattle in Puget Sound.
Geologists from the state Department of Natural Resources said the slide area is part of a much larger landslide complex that may date back as far as 11,000 years. The landslide into Puget Sound lifted the beach as much as 30 feet above the previous shoreline, the geologists said in a preliminary report Thursday.
The front of the landslide at the beach is about 1,100 feet long and extends about 300 feet into the sound, the report said.
While the ground continued to move Thursday, the geologists said the land will slowly try to stabilize itself.
“The chance of another catastrophic movement is low, but possible,” their report said.
No damage estimates were available yet.
Authorities continued to monitor the slide and began constructing a gravel path to provide access to more than a dozen homes that were isolated when a road washed out.
“We have no specific cause as to `why here, why now, why this big.”
Chief Ed Hartin, Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue
The area “still has a bit of slippage here and there,” said Terry Clark of the Island County Emergency Management Department. “It can be a handful of dirt to a barrel-full. It’s still an active event.”
On Thursday, “road closed” signs were being posted to prevent access to some areas as geologists continued to examine the site. At the bottom of the slide, pieces of grass from yards and ornamental tress could still be seen.
“It’s probably one of the largest ones we’ve seen in Washington state, much less along the coast,” Clark said of the landslide. “We’re used to little slides here and there, but this happens to be way beyond what our expectations were.”
Pete Kenny was visiting to help move his grandmother to Illinois and said he heard the landslide as he watched power line transformers explode.
“The landslide started right at the property line and went south of us,” he said.
Kenny said his grandmother’s home and a neighbor to south have not been evacuated. That neighbor lost a portion of yard.
“It’s a real sad situation. I just hope everything works out,” he said.
Most of the homes are summer cabins or weekend getaways and were unoccupied. Some are larger, upscale properties and others are more modest dwellings.
Local restaurants were serving free meals to those who needed them, and bed-and-breakfast cottages have also offered free rooms for a couple of nights. Community members were offering to volunteer, Clark said.
The island is about 35 miles long, north to south, and just a mile or two wide in places.
Clark remained awestruck by the event.
“Amazingly enough, the house that was totally destroyed actually rode on top, all the way down,” he said.
Photos of the Whidbey Island Landslide
In this aerial photo, houses sit near the edge of a landslide, near Coupeville, Wash. on Whidbey Island, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The slide severely damaged one home and isolated or threatened more than 30 on the island, about 50 miles north of Seattle in Puget Sound. No one was reported injured in the slide, which happened at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
A home was damaged by the massive landslide that also isolated or threatened more than 30 others near Coupeville, Wash. Geologists and engineers are assessing what might happen next after a large landslide thundered down the scenic island hillside overlooking Puget Sound. (AP Photo/Washington Dept. of Natural
Geologist Terry Swanson from the University of Washington surveys the damage from a landslide on Whidbey Island near Coupeville, Wash. on Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/The Seattle Times, Mike Siegel)
Dozens of homes were evacuated after the landslide on Whidbey Island, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
A house sits near the bottom edge of a landslide near Coupeville, Wash. on Whidbey Island, Wednesday, March 27, 2013. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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China’s landslide death toll rises to 46 – state media
At least 46 people, including children, are now known to have been killed by a landslide in China’s southern Yunnan province, state media report.
A number of people remain missing after the landslide struck on Friday
The bodies of the last two missing residents of the Gaopo village, Yunnan province, were found in the morning, Xinhua news agency says.
The landslide hit the village at about 08:20 local time on Friday (23:00 GMT Thursday), burying 16 houses.
Hundreds of rescuers have been searching for survivors at the site.
Photos published on the news agency’s website showed rescue workers combing through piles of earth and rubble strewn across a mountainous area.
Two injured people were earlier sent to hospital but their condition remains unknown.
The affected village, which is experiencing freezing temperatures, is next to Yiliang county, where a landslide in October buried a primary school that killed 18 children and an adult.
A series of earthquakes, including one of 5.8 magnitude, also hit the county in September 2012, killing dozens of people.
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