Sentences with phrase «of landslide»

Flood protection will also cover your belongings in the event of a landslide or mudslide as well.

Basic Monroe renters insurance will pay for costs incurred to your rental home, regardless of whether you are renting an apartment, loft, condo, townhouse or house, in the event of a landslide, tornado, hurricane, theft, vandalism, civil commotion, ice, sleet, snow or water damage or damage from a faulty pipe or electrical complications.

The insured plaintiff sought damages and punitive damages potentially totaling seven figures in connection with the handling of a claim by LTL's client in the aftermath of a landslide.

«On August 21, 1986, possibly as the result of a landslide, Lake Nyos suddenly emitted a large cloud of CO2, which suffocated 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock in nearby towns and villages...

Their Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness (LHASA) model melds information regarding slope, lithology, deforested areas, and proximity to fault zones and roads to derive a map of landslide susceptibility, which is then combined with satellite - derived estimates of precipitation from the past week to develop «nowcasts» of areas that are susceptible to landslides.

The law specifically addresses the issue of landslide control — with a goal of not increasing the natural background rate or magnitude of landslides as a result of forest practices.

Any discussion of landslide and mudflows?

Some of her recent work includes «Where White Pines Lay Over the Water,» a sound and media installation shown here in Toronto and in Brazil, and «Singing Our Bones,» an interactive installation which was part of Landslide / Possible Futures in Markham ON, and Ecocentrix in London England.

A travel magazine covered with pretzel crumbs becomes an image of a landslide.

Digging deep: Search and rescue personnel remove a motorcycle belonging to a victim of a landslide in Banaran village, Pulung district, Ponorogo, East Java, on April 3.

A search and rescue team from the Ponorogo Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) has recovered the body of a fifth victim of a landslide that hit Banaran village, Ponorogo regency, East Java, on April 2.

On the search for victims of the landslide in Banaran, the BNPT reported that as of Friday noon workers had recovered only three bodies.

Reconstruction deposited nearly 3,000,000 cubic yards (2,300,000 cubic metres) of landslide material on the coast, at the base of the slope.

Talk of a landslide victory is hysterical rubbish whipped up by the media.

«Now, the dust has begun to settle, and with more than 60,000 copies in print and ebook form sold during its first week, the results lean heavily in favour of a landslide «Four - Hour» victory.

Most likely this prize will go to «La La Land» as part of its landslide victory.

The volume of the landslide debris is more than 1000 times greater than that from the May 18, 1980 debris avalanche from Mount St. Helens.

Note the texture of the landslide deposit where it flowed across the floor of Valles Marineris.

In recently published papers in the Nature Astronomy and Science journals, Pajola and colleagues explained how what he had seen was the first observation of a landslide on a comet.

He thinks that the erosion of landslide debris in such a storm's aftermath triggers a change in fault loading, eventually producing an earthquake.

For instance, when rock falls off a mountainside, the peak is suddenly lighter — so, according to Newton's laws of motion, the mountain springs upward and away from the falling rock, generating initial ground motions that reveal the size of the landslide as well as its direction of travel, Ekström says.

To trace the footsteps of a landslide, they begin by using seismic waves to calculate its force.

DENVER — Glaciers may be hiding on Mars beneath piles of rocks that had been identified as a kind of landslide.

The length of the landslide — over 55 miles — also shows that it was as fast moving as it was massive, Hacker said.

Six of these tiny tremors occurred between the two parts of the landslide, five happened during the two days after the slide, and one was detected 10 days later, on April 20.

«This upward movement pulls the soil structure upward, thereby reducing the frictional strength along the base of the landslide, which is essentially a solid block sliding on a surface,» says Schulz.

Hummocks are intact blocks of landslide debris that have been transported from their source area.

In their report in the Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Stark and his team found that height or potential energy was the primary element responsible for the destructive force of this landslide, but noted that other observable factors were at play, as well.

To reproduce the vertical collapse of landslide material in the landslide scarp area and the extreme thinning and runout in the front, the model must take into account the presence of ice in the calculations.

Their research shows that the avalanche had a complex series of movement phases, starting with a cascade of landslide / debris flow beginning about 10 hours before the catastrophic rock slide - avalanche phases, and ending with rock slides and rock falls from an oversteepened headscarp.

If one party has lots of landslide victories and crushing losses compared with its rivals, this can be a sign of gerrymandering.

«This information is often used in numerical modeling of landslide - generated tsunami waves.»

When the volume of a landslide exceeds about 1 million cubic meters, particles bouncing against each other create variations in pressure within the flow, with bits in some zones experiencing higher pressure than normal and others feeling below average pressure and thus sliding more readily.

Throw in the fact that he's publicly mused about the seat in the past and has a history of landslide victories, and he's definitely an early favorite.

By 2010, Mensch was able to take the seat off Hope, although even then - with Labour's popularity at rock bottom under Gordon Brown - she was unable to win the type of landslide New Labour secured in 1997.

The politician, 67, tells Angela Wintle about tough times growing up in North Kensington, dodging dogs in his postman days and happy memories of landslide Tory defeats

The governing party (except in the case of a landslide, when things are skewed) normally has around 300 MPs.

Tony Blair today marked the tenth anniversary of the landslide election that returned a Labour government and made him prime minister.

If it goes McCain's way its definitely not over, but those predictions of a landslide will be looking shaky.

The state Democratic Party has re-released its «Albany swamp» ad, which used to feature both Rick Lazio and Carl Paladino and now, in light of his landslide GOP primary win Tuesday, only hits the Buffalo businessman as «part of the problem» in Albany.

The year 2008 was a partial exception: the number of landslide districts rose slightly from 2004, but so did the number of swing districts.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo blamed frustration with President Obama for the poor performance of Democratic candidates in New York, saying his victory fell short of a landslide because of discontent unrelated to the state.

Video of the landslide posted to the Twitter account of the official People's Daily showed the side of a hill collapsing, with dirt rushing across the outskirts of the town as onlookers shouted in fright.

Reflecting on the unhappy fruits of following the path of exclusion, as America has largely continued to do, he labors in face of the landslide to re-anchor hope in Christian hearts.

It will be that much more of a landslide victory for Obama in 2012!

The Republican vote — I repeat — will likely be just short of a landslide, just as the Democratic vote was last time.

Since then, the area has experienced a series of problems, including dozens of landslides along one 20 - mile (32 - kilometer) stretch of riverbank.

Local news media report that whole villages of people relocated to make room for the dam will have to move a second time because of the landslides and tremors, indicating that officials failed to foresee the full magnitude of the dam's effects.

The discovery could help marine workers who have to protect underwater cables and oil rigs from the threat of landslides.

But one has also to consider such microcosmic problems as poisonous snakes, being alone in the forest on slippery paths, or the occurrence of landslides next to the station.