mud slides

Collapsing buildings claim by far the majority of lives, but the destruction is often compounded by mud slides, fires, floods, or tsunamis.

Up to now, heavy rain caused landslides and mud slides have resulted in the Brazilian state of Rio more than 400 deaths.

Since then, the remotely controlled scouts have been deployed to mud slides, caved-in mines, and collapsed buildings around the world.

An official said mud slides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines have killed at least 90 people.

Days of heavy storms over the weekend swelled rivers and caused flooding, mud slides and evacuations across Northern California.

Experts had warned of the dangers of soil erosion in the area, known to be prone to mud slides.

Thousands of villagers were stranded in the open for days after their homes were destroyed by floods and mud slides.

The late 1990s were particularly grim, thanks to mud slides and a massive oak that crashed into Wright's studio.

Mud slides and floods are likely, with streams and rivers carrying off the topsoil.

It is now a tropical storm, but still got the potential to trigger flash floods and mud slides.

In many areas there was nothing to impede the terrible mud slides because the wildfires of 1993had destroyed all the vegetation.

More than 120 people have been killed by floods and mud slides in El Salvador after a weekend of heavy rains driven by hurricane Ida.

Almost 600 people are now known to have died in the devastating floods and mud slides in southeastern Brazil.

State media says 500 people are trapped by mud slides in Mianzhu, close to Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan.

Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike result in more than 570 deaths, mostly due to floods and mud slides in Haiti.

So are all the quakes , fires, droughts and mud slides in California Karma too?

This includes people in the mountains, and people near riverbeds, as landslides, mud slides, and rising waters leave thousands homeless.

Reporter ShanYangXian in the worst-hit areas by high, which saw hundreds of meters long street, about all covered by mud slides.

Some relief workers were buried by mud slides while repairing roads in Sichuan.

According to local forestry authorities a wild giant panda drowned amid heavy rain and mud slides in Sichuan.

Heavy rains could cause flash floods and mud slides.

And hundreds of people in northwest Gansu province recently lost their lives in the country's worst mud slides in decades.

The destabilizing effects of melting permafrost at high altitudes, for example on mountains, could even cause rockslides and mud slides.

Major floods in Pakistan and mud slides in China made wheat prices spike even further.

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