The mine is one of the largest in the world, and debris from the two landslides filled the pit bottom with waste and destroyed heavy equipment.
In Tegucigalpa, where the Choluteca River was dammed by a landslide, a temporary lagoon filled with sewage persisted for about two months, until a crew from the United States Army Corps of Engineers and United States Geological Survey dug a channel to drain the water.
Craters of different ages or states of degradation can be seen all over the surface; some have very sharp rims and simple morphology, whereas others are highly eroded and have sometimes been filled by landslides and ejecta from nearby craters.
It took 14.5 hours for the landslide dam lake to become fully filled, and 30 minutes for the landslide dam to complete collapse by overflow.
The northern landslide depression was rapidly buried by the construction of a second shield, the late activity of which overflowed the crest and then filled the southern landslide depression.
A three year-old girl died on September 16 after a landslide triggered by the rain filled the first floor of her home.
Finally the landslide mass reached the Aso Bridge and filled the gorge.
While the caldera collapsed, it was filled rapidly with erupted material, volcanic sill/flow, and landslide debris deposits (Fig. 6(b)).
China's premier, Li Keqiang, ordered an investigation into Sunday's landslide, which came four months after a series of huge explosions at a warehouse filled with chemicals in the northern city of Tianjin killed at least 50 people.
