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Landslides
Downslope movements of soil and and/or rock resulting from natural phenomena or man made actions. These can be secondary effects of severe storms, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS and EARTHQUAKES.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of landslides in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of landslides in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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That leaves open all kinds of possibilities -- more flooding, and the possibility of landslides and mudslides.
This is a clearly a very unusual event and the satellite imagery and eyewitness videos are showing a number of unusual characteristics that will take months to work out, no tsunami warning system I know of can handle multiple shocks or landslides as it is just too physically and computationally complicated for current technology.
Continued high temperature has accelerated glacial melting in mountainous areas, and caused natural disasters such as flash floods, mudslides, and landslides in many places.
Heavy rain has caused floods and landslides in 16 regencies in Central Java, rescue teams from the military, police, NGOs and volunteers, are contributing to the handling of the emergency and the search continues for those still missing.
It was a watershed event in volcanology in a lot of ways, it was when geologists after the eruption worldwide started recognizing these giant debris avalanches, these giant landslides that are now recognized as a major hazard at volcanoes all around the world. Drones, remote instruments like theUSGSspider, creepmeters, strainmeters andtiltmeters help scientists better monitor volcanoes in the hopes history doesn't repeat itself.
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