Category Mudslide Alert

Landslide kills 6 in North Sumatra, Indonesia

Six people have been killed and five others injured in a landslide that occurred in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province, a senior official at Indonesia’s disaster mitigation agency said on Tuesday, APA reports quoting Xinhua.   The official, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho,…

Landslide kills 6 at a coal mine in Semirara Island in Antique, Philippines

Six miners had been confirmed dead  after a landslide hit a coal mine in Semirara Island in Antique.   Roderick Train of the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) said on Saturday (July 18) that the latest body…

Landslide blocks crucial Gangotri highway in Uttarakhand, India

Heavy rains triggered landslide in Uttarakhand on Saturday blocking the crucial Gangotri highway near Raturi Sera village. Locals and tourists alleged that no assistance from the administration reached them, hours after the disaster struck. The disaster comes at a time…

Massive landslide buries 3 classrooms; kills 1 and injures 12 in Nepal

A landslide triggered by heavy monsoon rains buried parts of a school in western Nepal on Thursday, killing a student and injuring 12 people The police said the landslide buried three classrooms at the school in Pokhara, where students were…

MASSIVE LANDSLIDE SHUTS JAMMU SRINAGAR HIGHWAY, AMARNATH YATRIS STRANDED KASHMIR BOUND

More than 2,000 passenger vehicles, including 68 carrying Kashmir-bound Amarnath pilgrims, have been left stranded on the Jammu-Srinagar National highway, following its closure due to massive landslides at several places triggered by overnight rainfall.   The Jammu-Srinagar National highway has…

Tornado and landslide hit Zamboanga Sur, Philippines

Mindanao Examiner Photo – Christina Diabordo  A tornado struck a small village in Pagadian City in Zamboanga del Sur province in southern Philippines, but authorities said there were no reports of casualties, although several houses were destroyed by the swirling…

Landslide sweeps away petrol station in Ca Mau, Vietnam

A landslide destroyed a private petrol station in the southernmost Ca Mau Province The station was owned by Quach Van Mien, a resident of Lam Hai Commune in Nam Can District. The landslide shook his house and the petrol station,…