1. DEADLY MUDSLIDE KILLS AT LEAST 254 IN COLOMBIA April 1, 2017
Walter Hays, Global Alliance for Disaster Reduction, Vienna, Virginia, USA
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2. 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

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

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

5. MOCOA: THE MUDSLIDE STRUCK AT MIDNIGHT

6. MOCOA: UP CLOSE

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

8. MOCOA: MUDSLIDE (SOURCE: REUTERS)

9. MOCOA: MUDSLIDE DEBRIS

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

11. MOCOA: SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS

12. MOCOA: SEARCHING FOR SURVIVORS

13. DAY 2 IN MOCOA: SEARCHING AGAINS THE CLOCK

14. MOCOA: SEARCHING THE RUBBLE

15. MOCOA: A RESCUE

16. MOCOA: A RESCUE

17. “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.

18. MOCOA: WAITING ON INFORM-ATION ON THE MISSING

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

20. 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.

21. HIGHLIGHTS OF NOTABLE PAST LANDSLIDE DISASTERS

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

23. 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.

24. CHINA: NEPAL-TIBET ROAD

25. CHINA

26. INDIA

27. THE USA TENDS TO HAVE THE MOST COSTLY LANDSLIDES

28. 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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