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300 feared dead in Uganda landslide
Rescue efforts are being undermined by lack of modern equipment, local officials said
At least 300 people, including dozens of children, were feared dead after heavy rain triggered landslides that swept through villages on the slopes of Mount Elgon in Uganda, officials said on Tuesday.
- Date:
- 04/03/2010
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- Asian Age (New Delhi)
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Cold intensifies in North; 6 killed, 14 hurt in Himachal landslide
Cold conditions intensified in north India, with Jammu and Kashmir witnessing a fresh spell of snowfall and Himachal Pradesh a tragedy in which six persons were killed and 14 injured when a landslide washed out temporary sheds of labourers at a village in Kinnaur district, 150 km from here, on Sunday.
- Date:
- 15/02/2010
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- Indian Express (New Delhi)
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Six killed in Himachal landslide
SHIMLA: Five Nepali labourers and an Indian girl were killed when boulders fell on their hutments in Kinnaur district of Himachal Pradesh on Sunday, police said. Two people are still missing.
The dead included a 17-year-old girl who worked in an eatery.
The incident took place at Kaksthal near Wangtoo, Superintendent of Police Yashbir Singh Pathania said.
- Date:
- 15/02/2010
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- Hindu (New Delhi)
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Snow continues, many areas in Himachal cut off
2 dead; state reels under severe cold, goes without power for long hours
- Date:
- 10/02/2010
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- Indian Express (Chandigarh)
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Managing flash flood risk in the himalayas
Although flash floods are by their nature difficult to predict and control, it is possible to reduce the risk to lives and property through different measures. This information sheets summarises the major causes of flash floods in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region, and the different approaches that can be used to reduce the potential impacts.
- Date:
- Feb 2010
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- ICIMOD
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State to go for seismic micro-zonation project
ITANAGAR, Jan. 29: A workshop on Micro-zonation of Landslide and Earthquake hazards in Arunachal Pradesh was organized by the State Remote Sensing Application Centre (SRSAC), Itanagar in collaboration with Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India at the Arunachal Pradesh Science Centre, Itanagar here today.
- Date:
- 30/01/2010
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- Sentinel (Guwahati)
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Mining expert to study coalmine fire, landslide
TALCHER: A Top mining expert VK Singh of Central Mining Research Institute will be at Talcher coalfield soon to study the causes of landslide and fire in Ananta opencast mine.
- Date:
- 07/01/2010
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- New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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63 killed in Brazil landslides
Angra Dos Reis (Brazil): Rescuers pulled more bodies from an avalanche of thick mud and rock that buried a luxury Brazilian hotel filled with New Year's revellers, as the death toll from heavy rains in the south of the country rose to 63.
- Date:
- 04/01/2010
- Source:
- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Peril in the Pamirs
Lake Sarez was born nearly a century ago, when a mountainside in Tajikistan crumbled during a magnitude-7.4 earthquake. The 567-meter-high landslide blocked an alpine river, forming the world's tallest dam. Since then, the valley behind it has filled with 17 billion cubic meters of snow and glacier melt.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Science Vol: 326 Issue: 5960 pp: 1614-1617
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Deforestation led to landslide in Karwar, says expert committee
A multi-disciplinary expert committee that probed into the reasons for the landslide in Karwar which claimed 19 lives during the October floods has found that deforestation and large scale excavation of soil from the hilllock lead to the tragedy.
- Date:
- 08/12/2009
- Source:
- Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
