Category Earth Subsistance Alert

Two Deadly landslides hits Salvador in north-east Brazil

At least 14 people were killed in landslides in the city of Salvador in north-east Brazil on Monday.   Heavy rains flooded streets and triggered two separate landslides, sweeping away hillside homes in poor neighbourhoods and injuring 10 people.  …

Massive landslide kills more than 50 in Afghanistan

More than 50 people are feared dead in a landslide in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday.   The deputy governor for Badakshan province, Gul Muhammad Bedar, told reporters that 90 homes in a village near Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan have completely…

MAGNITUDE 6.7 NEPAL

Subject To Change Depth: 10 km Distances: 78 km E of Kathmandu, Nepal / pop: 1,442,271 / local time: 12:54:09.8 2015-04-26 18 km SE of Kodāri, Nepal / pop: 1,600 / local time: 12:54:09.8 2015-04-26

Massive landslide leaves 2 homes on the brink of falling into the Delaware River, New Jersey, USA

A landslide has left two homes in New Jersey on the brink of falling into the Delaware River.   Erosion has been a problem for several years for some homes in Florence. But the recent rain has created a hole…

500 head of cattle dead from landslides in Northeast Afghanistan

The death toll from several avalanches recorded in Afghanistan in the last hours increased to 88, while 26 people were injured in the middle of a snowstorm that plagues the country’s northeast, an official said.   The governor of the…

Landslide collapses four houses in Budgam, India

Panic gripped central Kashmir’s district Budgam Sunday evening when at least four houses were collapsed, locals told Kashmir Life.   According to reports, in Wadpora Budgam four houses collapsed due to a landslide in the area.   Ghulam Muhammad who…

Avalanche kills 4 Army men in Ladakh, India

Four army men were killed in an avalanche in Ladakh while five more bodies were recovered from debris of the houses that collapsed in landslides caused due to incessant rains in Jammu and Kashmir. With the recovery of the bodies,…