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Published online 20 February 2006 |
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Corrected online: 27 February 2006
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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.
Are landslides like this unusual?
A slide of this scale is quite unusual, says Diarmad Campbell, a landslide expert from the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, UK. But, he adds, smaller landslides are very common in the Philippines.
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