Landslide News

Geologists and Civil Defence staff are taking the threat of a landslide in the Hipaua thermal area above the settlement of Waihi on the shore of Lake Taupo seriously.

China is holding corrupt capitalism responsible for the safety of the working classes.

Landslides triggered by monsoon rains swept through three villages in Nepal's mountainous west Thursday, burying homes and killing at least nine people, a ministry official said.

A slide between Clayton and Perrysville avenues, North Side. Amid a tangle of felled trees and dirt, a yellow bucket crane sits along the hillside above Perrysville Avenue, just below an orange umbrella on the deck of a townhouse.

The ex-president and daughter of independence hero Sukarno offered no detailed policy initiatives during her brief speech before a sea of supporters wearing the red and black of her Democratic Party of Struggle .

Iran has been on fire since the presidential election result gave President Mehmud Ahmadinejad a landslide victory over his nearest rival, Mir Hussein Mousavi, a reformist and former Prime Minister of the country.

Leaks at Howard A. Hanson Dam have led the Army Corps of Engineers to reduce its storage capacity, potentially boosting the flood danger along the Green River in the suburbs between Seattle and Tacoma this fall and winter.

MORE than six months have passed since the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide tragedy on Dec 6 last year that claimed five lives and destroyed 14 bungalows.

STOCKTON SPRINGS : A coastal landslide threatening two unoccupied camps, and possibly a third, took place Thursday night along the shore at Fort Point Cove, according to Maine Geological Survey officials.

BUKIT Antarabangsa will be fully cleared of debris and mud left behind from a major landslide in December by the end of September or the latest by year-end. Ampang Jaya Municipal Council public relations officer Norhayati Ahmad said four companies have been contracted by the Public Works Department to carry out the job.

Emergency situation report ESR . The 32 foot-high dam of Situ Gintung, which was holding back around 70 million cubic feet of water at the Pesanggrahan river, was built up to a century ago, under the Dutch colonial rule.

Tue Jun 23, 2009 4:01am EDT - Iranian security personnel ride past burning debris on the streets in Tehran June 20, 2009.

A boy sits on his bed as torrential rain triggered by tropical storm Linfa floods his home in Jinjiang, in east China's Fujian Province, on Monday, June 22, 2009.

A landslide up in the headwaters of Targhee Creek, a tributary of Henry's Lake, is putting a heavy load of mud into the creek and the lake near the creek's mouth.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Tuesday defied mass protests against his re-election by visiting Russia for a summit where he baited the United States for being ensnared in an economic crisis.

CHRISTIANS Iranian Christians in U.S. praying for their homeland SAN DIEGO Members of the Iranian Christian Church of San Diego are praying for their homeland amid continuing turmoil over Iran's disputed presidential election.

Dubai authorities on Friday banned demonstrations by Iranian immigrants who have been protesting for four days in the Arab emirate against the presidential election results in Iran, Gulf News reported.

Siliguri, June 17: A landslide triggered by night-long heavy rain blocked the only road to Sikkim for more than eight hours today, leading to long queues of vehicles on both sides of the debris.

A company director today became the first man brought to court under a tough new corporate manslaughter law, after he was charged over a young geologist's mudslide death.

Russia, which is hosting a regional summit on Tuesday attended by Iran's leader, believes that the country's recent election is no business of other states, a senior diplomat said.