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  1. 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.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of landslides in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of landslides in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of landslides in a Sentence

  1. Arif Noor:

    The population is dense, but at the same time they're everywhere -- up in the mountains, down in the valleys, with landslides, the situation is even worse.

  2. Rosemarie North:

    The floods, landslides and tropical Cyclone Komen did a lot of damage to agricultural land, salt production, shrimp farming and fishing.

  3. Chris Goldfinger:

    In this case, three minutes -- and I've been in a 9 in Japan -- three minutes is an eternity. It is a very, very long time, we'll lose a lot of bridges. We'll lose our highway routes. The coast will probably be closed by down bridges or landslides or both.

  4. Joemen Collado:

    There were landslides in communities and then some of the victims were swept by floods.

  5. Philip Duncan:

    We’re expecting 100 to 300 mm [of rainfall] for many parts of the North Island’s north and eastern sides, with even greater totals if Gabrielle stalls or slows down, this rain will cause more slips/landslides, road closures, flight cancellations and possibly damage more homes as we saw in January.

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