2023年2月25日 · The Deadliest Landslides in Recorded History. The gravitational pull that facilitates a collective movement of soil, rock, and debris down a steep slope is called a landslide. Triggered by natural or artificial disturbances, landslides occur along steep sloping regions.

2023年3月26日 · Throughout history, there have been several notable landslides that have resulted in widespread devastation and loss of life. One of the most significant was the Yungay landslide, which occurred in Peru in 1970 and claimed the lives of over 20,000 people.

This list of landslides is a list of notable landslides and mudflows divided into sections by date and type. This list may be incomplete as there is no central catalogue for landslides, although it does exist for some for individual countries or areas.

According to the USGS, landslides or mudslides/flows kill 25 in the U.S. each year. Of course, the Mount St. Helens volcanic eruption on May 18, 1980 caused the largest landslide in U.S....

An average of 25-50 people are killed by landslides each year in the United States. The worldwide death toll per year due to landslides is in the thousands. Most landslide fatalities are from rock falls, debris flows, or volcanic debris flows (called lahars).

2021年9月23日 · The worst landslides in history had the power to take thousands of lives in an instant, and millions of people still live in places that are vulnerable to landslides. This list covers the most devastating landslides of all time, as well as the destruction left behind in their aftermath.

2017年8月1日 · At least 1,126 people in Southern Leyte, a province of the Philippines, lost their lives in a destructive landslide on February 17, 2006. The landslide was triggered by days of heavy rain and a low-magnitude earthquake. The landslide leveled the village of Guinsaugon in the Saint Bernard township.

2018年11月8日 · Landslides are life-threatening events that can make it seem as though the world we live upon is crumbling around us. Those landslides listed below are some of the deadliest in recorded human history, each taking away human life by the thousands.

2018年6月25日 · Table of the Catastrophic Landslides including year, country, triggering process, the volume of material, impact, and comments.

2019年9月10日 · For 20 years, 3876 landslides caused a total of 163,658 deaths and 11,689 injuries globally. They occurred most frequently between June and December in the Northern Hemisphere, and between December and February in the Southern Hemisphere.