Category Mudslide Alert

Landslides and heavy rain damages scores of properties in the Kashmir Valley

At least 44 structures including 18 residential houses were damaged due to landslides caused by heavy rainfall in the Kashmir Valley over the past 24 hours, police said today.   A landslide caused by rain in Chontinar village of central…

Landslide kills 6 and 4 missing in Indonesia

Rescuers have found six bodies and are searching for four others after a landslide hit Sukabumi district of West Java Saturday night, an Indonesian official said on Sunday.   Soldiers, volunteers and policemen are searching for the missing persons under…

Landslide endangers 3 houses in Des Moines, Washington, USA

Authorities have deemed these homes unsafe after a large landslide Friday just north of Saltwater State Park in Des Moines. (Erika Schultz/The Seattle Times) A landslide Friday afternoon endangered three homes overlooking Puget Sound in Des Moines, damaging at least…

Severe hailstorm, snow, rain and landslide hits Punjab, Haryana and Himachal in India

Temperatures on Sunday hovered below normal levels in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal as some parts of the three states continued to be lashed by rains and hailstorm.   The 300-km Srinagar-Jammu National Highway in J&K, which reopened yesterday after five…

Landslide kills 4 in Bosnia and Herzegovina coal mine

A landslide in Bosnia and Herzegovina coal mine has claimed lives of at least four people. Landslide occurred at an opencast lignite mine at Dubrave in northeast Bosnia and Herzegovina, Reuters has written quoting police and officials.   The people…

State Of Emergency After Historic Extreme Flooding Strikes Albania

At least four rivers have overflowed and the largest bridge in the Balkans has been destroyed due to extreme flooding in southern Albania and Greece, flooding that the Albanian prime minister has called some of the worst the country has…