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Table 1.1 Some destructive landslide events
Date Place Casualties Remark

25th November,
1248

Mont Granier,
France

1,000+ Destroyed five villages

2nd September,
1806

Canton of Schwyz,
Switzerland

457 Destroyed four villages

1843 Mt Ida, Troy,

New York

15 Sediment slump and flow

1881 Elm, Switzerland 115 Rock avalanche demolished

83 houses

1893 Trondheim,

Norway

111 Liquifaction flow in marine

clays

1903 Frank, Canada 70 Rock avalanche demolished

most of the town

18th February,
1911

Usoy, Tajikistan 54 Triggered by M 7.4 earthquake

19th May, 1919 Kelud, East Java 5110 Lahars caused 5,110 deaths and

destroyed 104 villages

16th December,
1920

Haiyuan County,
Ningxia, China

>100,000 Loess flows and landslides

over an area of 50,000 km 2

25th August,
1933

Diexi, Mao
County, Sichuan,
China

3,100 The largest landslide formed a

255 m high dam on the river
Min

*

5 July, 1938 Kwansai, Japan 1,000 1,30,000 homes damaged or

destroyed

*

1953 Minamiyamashiro,

Kyoto, Japan

336 dead or
missing

5,122 homes destroyed

13 December,
1941

Huaraz, Peru 4,000 6,000 Caused by rupture of a moraine

dam

-

10 January,
1962

Ranrahirca, Peru 4,000 5,000 An avalanche of ice and rock

triggered by collapse of part of
a hanging glacier

-

9 July, 1967 Kure, Hiroshima

Prefecture, Japan

159 Landslide destroyed 352

buildings

3 - 5 October,
1968

Darjiling, India ' Thousands ' Landslide destroyed 60 km

long highway

31 May, 1970 Yungay, Peru >22,000 Combined rock avalanches and

debris-flow buried two cities

4 May, 1971 St Jean Vianney,

Cannada

31 Slab flows buried people and

houses

April, 1974 Junin Region, Peru 450 218 mm rain in 5 h triggered

many landslides

13 November,
1985

Armero, Colombia 23,000 Volcanic mudslides, that flo-

wed at speeds of up to 50 km/h
down the slopes of the volcano.
These lahars moved into
valleys, merging to form larger
flows, one of which destroyed
the town of Armero