Sentence examples for severe landslides from inspiring English sources

Whole villages disappeared as a result of such severe landslides (Shahrivar and Nadim 2005).

While severe landslides have occurred recently (in Vaima and Marae in 2010, many villages in 2015), they are not that frequent On an island with three large dormant volcanic mountains, landslides are common and communities understand the risk.

Many of the existing main roads (expressways, national highways and prefectural roads) were cleared, and then repaired immediately after the earthquake-tsunami damage, with a few exceptions that were damaged by severe landslides caused by the quake or the fall of bridges caused by the tsunami.

Severe landslides and floods are projected to become increasingly common in such states as Assam.

Shortly after our visit, there were severe landslides resulting in severe damage/loss of hotels and homes.

Osini is an old rural village that was abandoned in 1951 because of a severe landslide.

Satellite images and aerial-photography following the Wenchuan earthquake show that a broad area experienced severe landsliding in association with the main earthquake and aftershocks.

The results indicated that rock fragment content, soil pH value, bulk density, inorganic carbon, and base saturation increased following landslide deposition and that severe landslide deposition caused more substantial increases.

The width of this severe landsliding zone varies along the strike, from ~ 25 30 km wide in the southwestern section of the earthquake region, to ~ 3 5 in the northeastern section.

Landslides occur in every state, though the U.S. Geological Survey says the Appalachian Mountains, the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coastal Ranges have "severe landslide problems". Slides cause from $2 billion to $4 billion in damages and from 25 to 50 deaths each year in this country, according to the USGS.

The first qualifies the knee-jerk prognoses of much disaster punditry by showing that severe landslide outfalls on a reach of roadway in the Himalaya are caused by increases in landslide volume but not frequency and that landslide frequency is associated with small on-going processes, in this case suburbanisation.