Category Mudslide Alert

Severe flash flooding devastates Douglas County, USA

Families in Douglas County are digging out again after a flash flood Wednesday night left a wake of damage and debris. “It sounded like a freight train was coming down the middle of the canyon,” explains Matt Beaty, who lives…

Severe storms causes havoc in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia

Heavy rain, hail and lightning on Tuesday hit some parts of central and northeastern Croatia, northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina and areas of Serbia which are still coping with the consequences of severe flooding in late May.   In Croatia, torrential…

Landslide destroys home; dozens of evacuations in North Salt Lake, USA

More than 20 homes have been evacuated and one completely destroyed after a hillside slid down here Tuesday morning.  The home on Parkway Drive crumbled after rain-saturated soil from the hill above started piling up behind it at around 6…

More than 500 foreign hikers rescued after deadly landslide in Nepal

More than 500 foreign tourists and their guides have been rescued after a deadly landslide in Nepal blocked a major highway, leaving them stranded in a border town over the weekend, Nepali hiking officials said on Monday. The mostly Indian…

Gigantic landslide swallows car park and leaves bus stranded in Japan

A bus containing terrified passengers lies trapped halfway down a mountainside after heavy rain caused this gigantic landslide. Amazingly, none of the passengers were killed as half a car park in Tokushima, Japan, was swallowed up. Two cars were left dangling over…

Major flood risk for more than 400,000 people in India after Nepal’s devastating landslide; 150 are still missing in Nepal

The Indian government says more than 400,000 people in the east of the country are at risk of flooding after a landslide that killed at least nine people in neighbouring Nepal The landslide, triggered by heavy rains, has left scores…

Flash flooding causes mayhem with four dead and dozens injured in Italy

Four people are known to have died and about twenty more have been injured after a thunderstorm caused a flash flood near Refrontolo in the Veneto Region of northern Italy slightly before midnight on Saturday 2 August 2014. The storm triggered…

Flood Alert triggered as landslide blocks river and at least killed 8 in Nepal

Bihar has ordered evacuation of people after a drastic rise in the water level of the Kosi river Saturday following a landslide that killed eight people in Nepal with mud and rocks crashing down and blocking a tributary of the…

Major landslide kills at least 17 people with at least 200 trapped in Maharashtra state, India

A mudslide surrounds a building in Malin village, where up to 200 people remain trapped, a rescue official said A landslide has struck a village in western India following heavy monsoon rains, killing at least 17 people and leaving as many as…