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I-40 rock slide cleanup to cost up to $10 million.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 28, 2009, 1:37 am
Engineers have established a $2 million to $10 million plan to clean up a rock slide on Interstate 40 near the North Carolina-Tennessee line. The state Department of Transportation said unstable rocks will be removed first and then large boulders will be blasted into smaller pieces. Rocks removed fr...
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Rock slide problem on Interstate I-40. Video and Pictures.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 26, 2009, 10:36 pm
It could take up to three months to completely clear debris on Interstate 40 after a rock slide early Sunday morning closed the highway in both directions at mile marker 3 in Haywood County, according to officials with the N.C. Department of Transportation. The slide happened about 2 a.m. near the T...
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Mudslide threat in La Canada Flintridge and Glendale. Video.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 14, 2009, 9:12 pm
Los Angeles County authorities said the communities most in danger of being hit by mudslides overnight included Big Tujunga Canyon, La Canada-Flintridge, La Crescenta and Glendale. Authorities were watching the amount of rain that fails, the type of soil it falls on, how saturated the soil becomes a...
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Video and Photos of Nile Valley landslide near Naches River.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 13, 2009, 9:21 pm
Governor Chris Gregoire declares a state of emergency following the huge Nile Valley landslide. The landslide completely wiped out a section of SR-410, isolating people from their homes. But, that's only half the equation, water is another issue, the Naches River has been diverted from it's original...
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Massive landslide blocks Naches River, Washington, causing residents to evacuate.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 11, 2009, 9:17 pm
A massive landslide about 10 miles west of Naches has closed Highway 410, destroyed a home and diverted the Naches River. Fear of flooding from the river has prompted authorities to begin evacuating residents. Several other homes have been damaged as water from the Naches River found its way around ...
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Photos of catastrophic landslides in La Trinidad, Philippines.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 9, 2009, 10:29 pm
Dozens of landslides in the rain-soaked mountains of the northern Philippines killed up to 200 people yesterday. The latest calamity brings the total death toll to more than 400 in the Philippines' worst flooding for 40 years. Rescue workers search for victims amid the ruin of a house after a landsl...
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Mudslide protection is set in La Crescenta, California. Video.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 7, 2009, 9:53 pm
During the Station Fire, firefighters lit backfires on the hillsides to protect the homes in La Crescenta, but now there is no vegetation to protect homes from mudslides. Experts say mudslides are inevitable this winter season, even with the slightest amount of rain. Officials with the USGS said tha...
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Illegal construction is blamed for Sicily's fatal mudslide.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 4, 2009, 9:09 pm
Poor drainage caused by illegal construction was blamed for mudslides that killed at least 20 people in eastern Sicily on Friday, with dozens missing and hundreds more injured. Dozens of buildings collapsed, leaving hundreds of people homeless in the worst floods to strike Italy since 1998.Mechanica...
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Images of devastating earthquake-triggered landslides in Indonesia.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 3, 2009, 9:38 pm
The death toll from Indonesia's massive earthquake will likely double as officials on Saturday reached rural communities wiped out by landslides that buried more than 600 people under mountains of mud, most of them guests at a wedding celebration. Roughly 400 people were at a communal wedding in Pul...
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Mudslides in Sicily kill 50, several buildings collapsed.

GIB GIB posted an article on Landslides under Microscope - Oct 2, 2009, 11:10 pm
Italy's government declared a state of emergency on Friday as the number of people killed in mudslides in Sicily rose to 50. Hundreds of people have been left homeless after the mudslides, triggered by heavy rain, and which have caused the collapse of at least 10 buildings. "There are some 20 dead a...
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