However, the evolution of a single landslide through time and its contribution to erosional processes remain poorly constrained.
A huge boulder dislodged by a landslide has smashed through a farm in Northern Italy, destroying a barn and narrowly missing a farmhouse.
Rescue workers entered what appeared to be a lobby decorated with oil paintings and plants, where a landslide had torn through a wall, television footage showed.
In the Welsh village of Pennal in Gwynedd, between Machynlleth and Aberdovey, a landslide blocked a channel through which water normally drains from a disused quarry.
State officials in Yunnan said 13 people were killed Monday and 16 were still missing as rescuers dug through a landslide, according to China Central Television.
Another theory is that the structure may have been weakened by a 4.9 earthquake that shook the Tokyo area on 24 November, or by a landslide inside the mountain through which the tunnel passes.
Finally, the volume of soil mobilized during a landslide shows noticeable variations through root block morphologies.
Major actors who had staged a coup almost 8 years earlier were confirmed in power through a landslide victory.
Mr. Sócrates, who after a landslide victory in 2005 pushed through the major elements of the energy makeover over the objections of the country's fossil fuel industry, survived last year's election only as the leader of a weak coalition.
Earlier this month, a couple from Somerset were killed in their car when a landslide engulfed them as they passed through Beaminster tunnel in Dorset.
