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Heavy La Niña rains prompt landslide

Roughly 1,000 people are still missing, feared dead, following a massive landslide that covered the village of Guinsaugon in the Philippines on Friday 17 February. Here, news@nature investigates the science behind the disaster.

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Diarmad Campbell, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh, UK

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Peplow, M. Heavy La Niña rains prompt landslide. Nature (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/news060220-1

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