Landslides
- Created by: vezting
- Created on: 14-12-15 17:41
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- Aberfan
- 21st Oct. 1966, South Wales
- Methyr Valley Colliery
- 100,000 cubic metres waste, 30km/hr
- soil heap 7 located at spring waters
- National coal board- NCB
- slow enough for warning
- build up of water at tip of Aberfan
- higher rain fall for October than usual
- 147 fatalities
- 116 from Pantflas junior school
- Holbeck Hall
- 5th June 1993, Start Bay, Scarborough
- Landslip, upper sections, boulder clay
- 60m cliffs
- Destroyed Holbeck Hall Hotel
- Ministry of Agriculture
- successions of drough made cliffs unstable
- became dry and cracked previous years
- saturated by rains spring and summer
- Venezuela
- 1999, first 2 weeks December
- 50% higher precipitation than normal
- 15th December, mud pour down 2000m high mount Alvia
- stretch of 300km burried
- 50,000 fatalities
- 150,00 homeless within Vargas and Miranda
- caracas airport closed
- economic damage- $3 bil
- Aberfan
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