Nocere – Earth Disasters

The landslide was most likely started by the heavy rainfall that has traversed through a town that is located in the north part of Turkey. The landslide took  the lives of at least 12 people.

Dozens of dwellings were taken down by the landslide in Gundogdu. It is the tea producing Black Sea state located in Rice. With the removal of the trees in the area, landslides are getting very common and dangerous. The trees are being removed in hopes of planting more crops.

On Thursday, late in the day, the rains began to fall. Many people were just ending their Muslin fast of dawn to dusk. It is the holy month of Ramadan.

Initially it was reported that 11 people had died, but then the body of an older lady was pulled from the debris. There was yet another person missing.

A Private television program, NTV reported that dozens of dwellings had fell to the ground and many cars were buried beneath the mud. There were also many roadways closed. Even the Black Sea highway that runs along the coast was closed.

A survivor, Burak Akat, reported that his family was eating at the time and heard a loud sound.

“We realized that the house was going to collapse. It did before I could say, ‘Run it’s going to collapse!’” Anatolia quoted Akat as saying. “I managed to throw myself out but my mother-in-law and my brother could not escape. They were buried in the landslide.”

There were at least 7 people who were wounded and many more people were rescued from homes where they couldn’t get out.

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In Leh, a flash flood went through the city on Friday. Leh is approximately 310 miles from Srinagar.

As of Sunday, the total of deaths as a result of the flooding and landslides was 145. That was as reported by the official Press Trust of India.

The people, searching for survivors, keep pushing on searching for any of the 500 still missing.

There was a huge amount of rain that fell last week which caused the landslides. They happened while people were still in their beds sleeping. Electrical lines were taken down, whole villages demolished, and cars were over turned.

The searchers hoping to find survivors are walking through mud that comes up to their knees in the city of Leh.

There are close to 6000 military personnel that have been sent to help out.

Helicopters are being brought in to try and reach areas that are not able to be driven to because of damaged roadways.

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In Pakistan, two landslides on Saturday resulted in more lives being loss.

At this time, 28 people who perished in the slides have been found while another 25 people are still missing.

Landslides are a result of torrential rainfall. The rainfall has flooded two villages which are located in the north parts of Pakistan.

As rain continues to drench the area, it continues to cause problems with getting help to the people who have been affected by it all.

The villages are located in the Gilgit-Baltistan province. They are still searching for bodies that could be covered over with mud.

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On Sunday, in the northwestern part of China’s Gansu province, landslides took 65 lives and possibly more. There are still hundreds of people that have not yet been found.

It was very early on Sunday morning when the landslides started. The newest disaster for the China.

In Zhouqu, the area that took the hardest hit, nearly half of the county was now beneath the water. There were numerous homes that had fallen and the streets were coated with mud and water.

Landslides were caused by the down pouring of rain that ravaged china during the night time hours on Saturday. There was also a river that flooded out of it’s banks.

The thick mud covered roads and land are hampering the rescuers. Making it hard to drive into areas or walk over the terrain.

It is possible that there were about 50,000 people whose lives were affected by this disaster. Electricity had to be cut off from the affected areas.

They are using helicopters to check out the damage.

There are also 2400 soldiers that have been sent to aide the rescue efforts.

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A landslide caused by rain fall took the lives of 18 people. The landslide occurred in the eastern parts of Indonesia on the island of Buru which is located itn the Maluku province..

The landslide took out many homes as it traveled down the hill side.

Heavy rainfall and lack of trees allowed the land to start sliding down. Without trees, there is nothing to hold the mud back.

The rainfall also was the cause of floods sweeping though towns taking the lives of 3 people.

There were over 3000 families whose lives were stricken by the flooding that started on Saturday.

This is the time of year that landslides happen quite a lot in Indonesia. They occur the most between April and December.

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In the western parts of China, in three different areas, Xiaohe, Sichuan, and Sima all suffered with landslides in the predawn hours on Tuesday.

While there was activity of draining down a dangerous rapidly rising reservoir in another part of China, 17 people loss their lives in landslides.

4 people perished and another 42 missing in Xiaohe which is located in Yunnan. There were 38 others wounded.

In Sichuan, a nearby province, 7 more perished and one was still not found. While searching for a survivor, 6 others that had died where discovered.

The landslides are the result of the heavy rainfall that the area has been receiving this year.

Rescuers continue to search for people at all three area.

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It has been raining for days. China continues to suffer from flooding in areas that has taken lives and forced many from their homes. Over 3 million people have been forced out of thier homes in China in the past 2 weeks.

At this time in other areas of China that have been hard hit by rains and landslides, the number of people that have died is at least 239 with 109 people still that haven’t been located. This does not include the 107 from Mondays landslide in Dazhai.

As the mud washed down the hillside, it entrapped many homes in the mud trapping people inside. As they are trying to find the missing people, more mud could come down the hillside at any time.

The homes that are buried beneath the mud are in Dazhai which is in the Guizhou province of China.

The number of people who have died in the landslide is not yet know. It is reported that close to half of the hillside had caved in absorbing a large area of mud.

There are rescuers dressed in orange colored clothing searching along the hillside. Looking under concrete slabs or anything eles that someone could be trapped under.

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Heavy down pours of rainfall in Burma causing mudslides and flooding has taken 46 lives this past week.

In Maungdaw 28 people died. An additional 18 people perished in Buthidaung which borders Bangladesh.

Many people are being evacuated and rescue crews are out there looking for others that need help.

On Tuesday, there were mudslides which resulted in the deaths of 53 people in Bangladesh.

At least 13.5 inches of rain came down in Maungdaw this past week all on one day.

A witness stated seeing 10 houses damaged as mud came down the hillsides.

A continued act of cutting the trees down off the hillsides is one of the causes for these mudslides. Trees are needed to help hold the ground in place when the heavy rains come.

Back in 2008, there were close to 140.000 people that died when a cyclone hit on the south side of Burma.

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