A slow-moving landslip is devastating Falls Creek’s tourism industry,with the main route to town cut off and the cancellation of events costing businesses at least $5.5 million.
Huge cracks run wide and deep,threatening to send massive sheets of rock and sediment cascading onto the beaches below.
A large section of cliff near the Great Ocean Road collapsed onto a beach after authorities closed the area weeks ago over fears that it would give way after heavy rain.
Australia’s neighbour has declared a state of calamity as COVID,dengue fever and cholera threaten to spread in evacuation centres after floods drowned Dili.
Emergency authorities have again warned of a “significant risk to human life” associated with a potential cliff collapse at the beach below Demons Bluff near Anglesea.
At least nine people were killed and 140 were missing in a disaster experts said appeared to point to global warming.
Ten people remain missing after a landslide in southern Norway,with rescuers deploying drones and dogs to negotiate unstable clay soil.
The landslide struck a residential area in the municipality of Gjerdrum,about 30 kilometres north of the capital Oslo.
The victims included three New Zealanders from the same family,who were found dead on Monday after a landslide hit vacation cottages.
Dozens of people have been killed by landslides triggered by unusually heavy rains in northwestern Kenya,officials say.
Italian firefighters say 200 people have been evacuated after a landslide cascaded through a mountain town,overturning cars in its path.