DEADLY MUDSLIDE KILLS AT LEAST 254 IN COLOMBIA April 1, 2017 Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA lecture by Walter Hays Uploading date: April 02, 2017 Updated April 5, 2017 More lectures at Disasters Supercourse - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/disasters/BADisasterSupercourse.htm PPT original - http://www.pitt.edu/~super7/55011-56001/55221.ppt URL: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec55221/index.htm

AFTER A WEEK OF RAIN, TORRENTIAL RAIN FALL BETWEEN 11 p. m. and 1 a. m AFTER A WEEK OF RAIN, TORRENTIAL RAIN FALL BETWEEN 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. ON MARCH 31-APRIL 1 TRIGGERED A DEADLY MUDSLIDE THAT STRUCK MOCOA, COLOMBIA WHILE IT SLEPT

AT LEAST 254 KILLED; HUNDREDS INJURED; HUNDREDS MISSING; HOSPITALS OVERWHELMED WITH INJURED

MOCOA (40,000): AERIAL VIEW (SOURCE: COLOMBIAN ARMY)

MOCOA: THE MUDSLIDE STRUCK AT MIDNIGHT

MOCOA: UP CLOSE

MOCOA (40,000): (REUTERS) MUDSLIDE STRUCK AT MIDNIGHT

MOCOA: MUDSLIDE (SOURCE: REUTERS)

MOCOA: MUDSLIDE DEBRIS

More than 1,100 soldiers and police officers were called in to help Locals dig people out in 17 affected neighborhoods.

MOCOA: SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS

MOCOA: SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS

DAY 2 IN MOCOA: SEARCHING AGAINS THE CLOCK

MOCOA: SEARCHING THE RUBBLE

MOCOA: A RESCUE

MOCOA: A RESCUE

“We have a huge challenge to find the missing,” said the Director of Colombia’s Disaster Agency, Carlos Iván Márquez, adding that 400 rescuers were scouring the riversides for victims and survivors while helicopters searched from the air.

MOCOA: WAITING ON INFORM-ATION ON THE MISSING

Lists of Children who Could not Find Their Parents Were Circulated on Social Media in an Accelerated Effort to Reunite Families

RISK FOR ADDITIONAL MUDSLIDES REMAINS HIGH Without power, gas or telephone service and with little clean water, about 600 survivors spent Sunday in makeshift shelters, on high alert for any further rainfall that could trigger another mudslide.

HIGHLIGHTS OF NOTABLE PAST LANDSLIDE DISASTERS

PARTS OF SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, AND ASIA TEND TO HAVE FREQUENT, DEADLY LANDLSIDES

PAST LANDSLIDE DISASTERS The scale of the Mocoa disaster is daunting compared to the 2015 landslide that killed nearly 80 people in Salgar, Colombia. But, the 1985 mudslide disaster following the eruption of Nevada del Ruiz, left 25,000 dead in Armero.

CHINA: NEPAL-TIBET ROAD

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THE USA TENDS TO HAVE THE MOST COSTLY LANDSLIDES

IMPACTS IN THE USA Landslides occur in all 50 states and U.S. territories, On average, they cause $1-2 billion in damages and more than 25 fatalities each year

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