 Posted: Tue 4:31, 10 May 2011 Post subject: Landslides - Avalanche of Mud |
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| n China observed a daytime of grief on 15th August 2010 for the sufferers of the previous week's deadliest mudslide in Zhouqu, Gansu province, alike calamities of altering scale occurred elsewhere in manifold parts of Asia -Pacific zone. Landslides are common occurrences closely joined with major natural disasters such as earthquakes,Jordan Campus Chukka Sail Olive, volcanoes, wildfires, and floods, and they constitute major hazards if they are widespread. Flood alarms work hand-in-hand with fears over potential landslides - rain-triggered disasters. With unprecedented frequency of extreme weather calamities accentuating, landslides - mudslides are anticipated to trait increasingly in our disaster treatment dreams.
Mid-year 2010 saw countries in the southern sub-continent i.e. India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh battered by torrential rains. In Bangladesh, heavy rains in mid-June 2010 triggered landslides in Cox's Bazaar and Bandarban zones. In Cox's bazaar, 45 bodies were recovered from the Ukhia and Teknaf landslides. The disaster did not leftover those in the security services both. In Himchharhi, eight members of the army's Engineering Construction Battalion were killed when landslides (a big chunk of a mound) hit them. Twenty army conveyances were likewise buried in the muck. Thousands of houses collapsed due to the mudslides. In India-controlled Kashmir, flash floods sent massive mudslides down remote abandon mountain sides trampling homes. At fewest 132 people were killed and 500 others lacking. In Pakistan, landslides triggered at the worst floods in 80 annuals impeded way into areas already secluded along the large disaster, thus hampering relief efforts. Aid operators had to use mules or travelled on foot to approach human in dire absence of favour. With many roads destroyed by the floods and blockages by landslides some of the affected places were entirely marooned. (i) In Malaysia, however only a inferior landslide incident took area on 10th August 2010,AJ After Game, answers approximately mitigating measures were swiftly raised. In the disaster which struck Duyong in Malacca state, more than 1,000 families were hit by flash floods and a landslide. The landslide missed several shop lots. Four days after cumbersome rains in Penang occasioned a hillslope maintaining wall to breakdown, sending a deluge of muddy water into low-costs flats handy. Like its other ASEAN borders, Malaysia too has its share of landslides, accidents of which are general in hilly terrains. With the country moving rapidly towards urbanization, some landslide occurrences testified to be serious risks involving fatalities and losses, with severe breaks to the infrastructure. Since the eighties, especially beginning with the construction of the North-South Expressway, landslides had been closely monitored by the authorities. Increasing urban land use had seen occupation of more hilly lands and consequent to a number of landslides involving affluent suburban areas in the chief over the elapse few years led the Malaysian government to ban hillside evolution in 2008. Malaysia, with its experience of seasonal monsoon and share of utmost climate triggered calamities, has undertaken mitigation fathom apt decrease the risks of landslides. Maintenance of the hilly slopes onward the North-South Expressway (NSE) a important highway in the nation, involved installations of high-tech devices apt detect impending landslides and reduce rock falls. The detectors gauge rain aboard precedence slopes and collects data instrumental as determining upkeep requirements above the slope concerned. A total of 70 locations along the expressway have been equipped with the Real Time Monitoring System (RTMS), the premier in South-East Asia. The final major landslide along the NSE was in 2004. (ii) As for Indonesia, a extensive tropical archipelago spanning extra than 17,000 islands, landslides annihilate dozens of people each year. With the exceptions of major episodes of magnitude, most of the landslides merely made regional news. Heavy rains yet triggered landslid |
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