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Rubbish landslide in Ethiopia leaves more than 100 people dead

A large volume of trash gave away on March 11, 2017 at a vast garbage dump on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, killing more than 100 people and leaving several more missing. The...

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Malta’s Azure Window collapses after storm

The famous rock formation of Malta Island collapsed into the sea on March 8, 2017, due to the heavy storms that hit the area. The Azure Window - also known as the Dwejra Window - was a 28 m tall na...

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Oklahoma faces seismic risk due to drilling activity

According to the U.S. Geological Survey annual forecast on natural and human–induced seismic risk, Oklahoma and Kansas may experience serious ground shaking during 2017 due to the drilling activity of...

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Sixteen new locations listed as major active fault zones in Japan

The total number of major active faults in the country has now increased to 113, as the Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion of the Japanese government added 16 more faults to the list of ac...

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Footage captures landslide destroying homes in Bolivia (video)

Several houses were destroyed in the Auquisamaña area of La Paz, Bolivia on February 15, 2017, as a landslide rolled off the mountainside into the neighbourhood of the Bolivian capital. Watch...

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Italian village is being torn apart by slow-moving landslide (video)

Τhe landslide is moving at a rate of about 1 meter per day since February 12, tearing apart the village of Ponzano, in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. The landslide was caused due to the combi...

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Landslide crumbles down San Bernardino County’s mountain in California (video)

A video by San Bernardino County firefighters captures the moment the large volume of snow, rock, soil and timber slides off the mountainside. Being as large as 3 football fields, the landslid...

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Sinking and tilting of San Francisco’s Millennium Tower has led things to courts

In 2016, it became public that the 58–story skyscraper - the biggest residential building of San Francisco - was both sinking and tilting at non-acceptable rates. Blaming the building's inadequate fou...

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Damage to California’s Oroville Dam forces mass evacuation under the threat of flooding

Almost 200,000 people were ordered to evacuate the area around Oroville, California on Sunday afternoon, after erosion caused damage in both spillways of America's tallest dam at Lake Oroville. The...

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Hotel collapses after heavy rain in Peru (video)

La Hacienda hotel collapsed into Sicra River in the Peruvian town of Lircay, on January 26, 2017, due to foundation erosion caused by the heavy rains that hit the region. According to the Civil Def...

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