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Landslide in northern China kills 9 by Staff Writers Beijing (AFP) April 30, 2018 A landslide killed nine people in a village in northern China on Monday, authorities said. The disaster occurred in the village of Caijiazhuang shortly before 5:00 am (2100 GMT Sunday), Luliang municipal government in Shanxi province said on its official social media account. More than a hundred firefighters, medical workers and rescuers -- some using earth-moving machinery -- were sent to the site to search for survivors trapped under fallen earth. The cause of the landslide has not been confirmed. A 2008 landslide in Luliang city killed 19 people.
Before the flood arrives Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2018 River floods are one of the most common and devastating of Earth's natural disasters. In the past decade, deluges from rivers have killed thousands of people every year around the world and caused losses on the order of tens of billions of U.S. dollars annually. Climate change, which is projected to increase precipitation in certain areas of the planet, might make river floods in these places more frequent and severe in the coming decades. Now, a new study led by researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsi ... read more
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