| In California, huge mudslides destroyed seven trailers in a mobile home park. |
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| Earth is set to warm further in the decades ahead, bringing more and bigger fires, mudslides, heat waves, droughts, and powerful hurricanes. |
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| It means 500 percent more floods, mudslides, hailstorms, drought, ice storms and wildfires. |
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| So far, 2,426 homes have been destroyed in the mudslides, many built precariously in hillside shantytowns. |
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| Effective techniques of fighting the enemy in the mountains are induced rockfalls, avalanches, glacier movements and mudslides. |
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| Dozens of villagers were killed by mudslides on the slopes of the mountain, which rumbled back to life in July, government officials said. |
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| Residents in remote mountain villages must stay alert to landslides, mudslides, tumbling rocks, any river rising and flooding, the bureau warned. |
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| Additionally, once logged, many national forests are prone to flooding, mudslides and stream destruction due to runoff and siltation. |
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| They are giving up efforts to dig out bodies and declaring entire communities mass graveyards after killer mudslides in Guatemala last Wednesday. |
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| She explained how her parents' house almost floated out to sea in the recent rainstorms and mudslides. |
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| Torrential rain caused severe flooding and triggered at least 93 mudslides and landslides. |
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| Rain brought renewed fears of mudslides in areas ravaged by wildfires last year. |
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| Sporadic systems are those that produce avalanches, earthquakes, mudslides, volcanic eruptions and such like. |
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| The center said there were 43 mudslides, most of them located in Nantou County, where the seismic activity has made the county prone to mudflows. |
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| Aboriginal people said that they still can't escape from nightmares relating to earthquakes, mudslides and collapsed land. |
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| Its first priority is to identify where permafrost is present and where mudslides and rockfalls are likely as it melts under the effect of global warming. |
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| Reservoirs filled to capacity, dikes eroded into mudslides, and raging rivers ripped away at cliffsides, bridges and buildings. |
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| This storm is bearing down on Jamaica, not making direct landfall, but we're seeing enough thunderstorm activity that we may see mudslides as a result. |
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| Torrential is rain still falling, triggering mudslides in Austria. |
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| Unstable slopes are often the scene of mudslides and dramatic landslides, especially if located near roads and houses. |
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| I should like to recall a great tragedy, and in this way commemorate the victims of the mudslides in the vicinity of Messina in Sicily. |
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| Protective barriers are being put in place against potential avalanches and mudslides. |
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| Floods and mudslides provoked by a heavy rainstorm on 20 February washed away bridges, blocked roads and cut off parts of the island. |
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| About 200 mm of rain fell over two days triggering washouts and mudslides and closing several highways and smaller roads. |
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| Apart from the risk of floods and mudslides, little or no sanitation systems in crowded camps leave people at risk of disease. |
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| Already deforestation has reduced the amount of available water and contributed to mudslides in residential areas. |
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| In the second half of 2009, a series of tropical storms battered the Philippines, causing flooding and mudslides. |
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| Many fatalities occurred as a result of mudslides in deforested areas. |
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| The mudslides were set off on Christmas Day after a downpour fell on hillsides that had been stripped of vegetation by wildfires in October and November. |
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| In the autumn, the tropical storm Stan leaves widespread devastation: Flooding and mudslides in El Salvador, and particularly in Guatemala. |
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| If mountain areas were full of deep-rooted Japanese cedar rather than betel nut palms, torrential rains would be less likely to cause mudslides and overflowing rivers. |
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| Two bridges connect the town to the other side. The residents have only minutes to get across those bridges to escape potential lava flows, lahars, and mudslides. |
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| There were always small rockslides or mudslides happening there. |
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| In the northern Cascade Mountains the supposedly dormant volcano Mount Baker periodically oozes clouds of steam over its summit and stains its icy slopes with mudslides. |
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| Flooding, mudslides and fallen trees cut several main highways into Wellington to a single lane in places, snarling commuter traffic and forcing it to a crawl, he said. |
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| They don't deserve mudslides or earthquakes or crooked dictatorships or AIDS or a whole host of things that afflict them that you and I cannot stop, either. |
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| Most victims were crushed by falling buildings or buried by mudslides but four people died of heart attacks after the tremors on Wednesday, officials said. |
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| Aftershocks and heavy rains continue to trigger mudslides on mountain slopes where the quake has uprooted forests, loosened topsoil or created barrier lakes. |
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| There have been more mudslides and landslides leading to deaths. |
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| Additional challenges are posed by natural disasters, mainly drought, flash floods and mudslides. |
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| A tropical cyclone does not need to be particularly strong to cause memorable damage, primarily if the deaths are from rainfall or mudslides. |
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| Because of the danger of flooding and mudslides due to environmental degradation, watershed management and disaster risk reduction are a priority in Haiti. |
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| Steeper terrain is also more prone to mudslides, landslides, and other forms of gravitational erosion processes. |
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| Muddiness, particularly during mudslides linked to microseisms. |
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| Despite repeated warnings of imminent additional mudslides, they proceeded to dig the man out by hand, and with great haste, were able to free him and bring him to safety. |
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| Landslides, mudslides and other types of mass movement can be a result of water saturation of the soil layers, modifications made to the slope and its vegetative coverage, and earthquakes. |
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| It was a wild weather day across Alberta with a blinding dust storm near Medicine Hat, wind-driven grass fires in Calgary, 30 cm of snow in Edmonton, and deadly avalanches and mudslides in the Rockies. |
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| Even with the threat of further mudslides and against heavy rain and thick mud, Randy and his colleagues risked their lives to rescue the two men. |
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| In October 2000, several days of persistent heavy rain in the cantons of Valais and Ticino not only caused landslips and mudslides but also created a precarious situation along mountain torrents, rivers and lakes. |
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| Does the Prime Minister want to force an early election before all this dirt that is oozing out of the finance department escalates into a mother of all mudslides? |
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| On April 10th, two mudslides fell dawn nearby the little village of Aguas Calientes, in the area of the Machu Picchu. It destroyed seven houses and a section of the railroad, which links Cusco to the Machu Picchu citadel. |
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| The steep slopes limiting the terraces have been, and still are, seriously affected by erosion, especially by slumps, landslides and occasional mudslides. |
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| Now that the state is finally seeing some significant rainfall in December, those wildfires created conditions conducive to flooding and mudslides. |
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| Malnutrition, dirty water and lack of health care kill far more children, undramatically, off-camera, every week than the maybe 20,000 lives swept away by Central America's latest floods and mudslides. |
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| Annual tropical storms and mudslides wreak havoc with the few roads. |
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| But others were not so lucky: in San Marcos and Panajachel and in other more remote areas, mudslides struck unexpectedly, cutting swathes through villages. There are a few reasons for hope. |
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| Landslides and mudslides: For hazards such as landslides and mudslides, reducing school risk is achieved by minimizing exposure to the moving mass through site selection. |
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| With a discernable trend towards more frequent extreme weather conditions, it is likely that floods, droughts, mudslides, typhoons and cyclones will increase. |
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| Scientists from Queen's University stationed on Melville Island witnessed huge mudslides when underlying layers of permafrost melted and gave way. |
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| Elaborate, costly safety measures such as wooden constructions, protective walls and support walls are currently used to break the force of these mudslides. |
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| Since that time there have been numerous mudslides that have closed the road temporarily, all of them reminders that the temporary fix to the road could collapse at any moment. |
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| Flooding and mudslides can occur during this period. |
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| The country is indeed regularly beset by floods and mudslides. |
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| At the request of authorities in Taiwan the mechanism has been activated to help the local population affected by heavy flooding and mudslides in different parts of the country. |
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| The consequences are rock falls, landslides and more mudslides. Global warming is further accentuated by what is referred to as the feedback effect: like a mirror, glaciers reflect solar energy. |
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| Are any communities or roads at risk from mudslides or landslides? |
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| There are also insurance risks that are not normally covered, such as earthquakes, mudslides, heating-oil spills, sewer backups, leakage from rainwater and flooding caused by rising waters. |
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| In November 1994, Hurricane Gordon brushed Haiti, dumping heavy rain and creating flash flooding that triggered mudslides. |
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| The Machu Picchu site will remain closed for weeks, until the government can repair highway and railway tracks washed out by mudslides and the raging Urubamba River. |
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| Heavy rainfall, snowmelt, or high levels of ground water may trigger a movement of soil or sediments, possibly causing mudslides, landslides, avalanches, or sinkholes. |
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| It can currently be seen on menus throughout the country in Mojitos, Mudslides, Cacao Pina Coladas, shots, and Espresso Martinis. |
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