The death toll from a mudslide that flattened much of a village in central Indonesia rose to 56 on Monday before rain forced rescuers to halt their search for dozens of missing people, officials said. Seventeen bodies, including those of …
A slow-motion disaster continued unfolding in the Wyoming resort town of Jackson on Saturday, as a creeping landslide that split a hillside home threatened to swallow up more houses and businesses. The ground beneath the 100-foot hillside had been slowly …
A scientist who documented the landslide conditions on a Washington hill that buckled last weekend in a massive mudslide warned in a 1999 report filed with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of “the potential for a large catastrophic failure.” …
Severe Tropical Storm Trami struck Wednesday in heavily populated northern Taiwan, prompting schools and offices to close down as heavy rains triggered landslides and other disruptions throughout the island. At 5:30 p.m.(0330 GMT), the Central Weather Bureau said the center …
Rescuers pulled 10 bodies from mounds of mud Tuesday after flooding and landslides triggered by torrential rains in eastern Indonesia sent thousands fleeing for safety and left four others missing, a disaster official said. The corpses were retrieved from five …
A massive landslide has buried a section of the main road connecting much of Austria’s Tyrol province with the city of Salzburg to the east, and emergency crews fear a car may be trapped under the rubble. They say tons …
City leaders in East Peoria, Ill., don’t have many answers so far for people forced out of three homes by a landslide. People affected by the slide gathered at a City Council meeting Tuesday to ask questions. Josh Allen owns …
State media report that a large-scale landslide has trapped dozens of workers in a gold mining area in China’s Tibetan region. China Central Television said Friday that the landslide occurred in the morning in the Maizhokunggar county of Lhasa, the …
A government official says a landslide in western Indonesia has killed four villagers and left 30 others missing. Sutopo Purwo Nugroho of the Disaster Management Agency says the landslide Wednesday buried 37 houses in the district of Nias Selatan in …
A Red Cross official says a landslide caused by heavy rains in northwest Colombia has killed 14 people and left dozens more missing. Cesar Uruena says more than 14 homes were buried by the landslide in the city of Manizales …