Showing posts with label Mass movement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mass movement. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Mass Movement...Indonesia


An Indonesian worker prepares concrete balls to be dropped into the mud flow in Java on 28 February, 2007

Brief halt for Indonesia mud flow


A massive mud flow that has displaced some 15,000 people in Indonesia's Java island halted briefly for the first time in 10 months, officials say.

Read about it on the BBC Website...here.

Sunday, January 28, 2007

Hazards

These pages from INTUTE draw together resources about a range of natural hazards. These resources include satellite images, maps, articles, links to data, information on current and historical events, links to sources focusing on the measurement/classification of events, combined with links from the Intute Internet resource catalogue.

Here you can find information about earthquakes, volcanoes and mass movement hazards from around the globe....click here.

Monday, January 08, 2007

Mass Movement examples


Mudslides in Brazil kill at least 37...read about it here.




Landslides in the Phillipines...read it here.
What caused Philippines landslide?....read it here.
In pictures: Philippine mudslides. See it here



Avalance in Colorado