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Levee failure along Washington’s Green River highlights flood and ground stability risks during atmospheric river events

A levee breach occurred along the Green River near Tukwila, Washington, during renewed atmospheric river rainfall that affected the Pacific Northwest in mid-December 2025. The failure took place alon...

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Stabilisation nears completion as Bridgewater Canal embankment design progresses

The recovery programme for the Bridgewater Canal embankment breach at Little Bollington has moved into a critical new stage, with stabilisation works nearing completion and formal engineering design...

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Highway embankment gives way in Kollam, investigation begins

A newly built embankment along National Highway 66 at Mylakkadu in Kollam collapsed without warning, trapping several vehicles, including a school bus, and causing deep ground fissures across the ser...

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Alaska rocked by M7.0 earthquake as aftershocks intensify, raising infrastructure risks

A magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Yakutat, Alaska, triggering more than 160 aftershocks within 24 hours and generating widespread ground shaking across southeastern Alaska and parts of Canada. T...

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Investigation reveals combined failures behind the fatal Seoul sinkhole collapse

A government investigation has concluded that the March 2025 sinkhole in Myeongil-dong, which resulted in one fatality, was caused by weakened ground conditions driven by human-related factors. The C...

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Vietnam Hit by multiple landslides after extreme rainfall, intensifying the human impact

Vietnam has experienced one of its most severe sequences of rainfall-induced hazards in decades, with prolonged storms triggering extensive flooding and more than a dozen landslides across Lam Dong p...

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Afaahiti hillside collapse leaves eight dead as saturated slopes fail in Tahiti

A catastrophic landslide in the village of Afaahiti, on Tahiti’s southeastern coast, has left at least eight people dead and several others missing after saturated hillside slopes collapsed during th...

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Record floods and landslides devastate Southeast Asia as death toll surpasses 600

Southeast Asia is facing one of its most severe flood–landslide seasons in recent years, with more than 600 fatalities confirmed across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. In particular, Sr...

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Landslides and flash floods in North Sumatra kill at least 10, leave six missing

Torrential monsoon rains over the past week unleashed flash floods and triggered landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people and leaving six others missing, police said on We...

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Heavy rainfall triggers fatal Sri Lanka landslide amid rising regional geohazard pressures in Asia

A severe landslide in Sri Lanka’s Central Province has resulted in the deaths of four people, according to the country’s Disaster Management Centre. The event occurred when a slope above a small road...

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