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32,4 million people were forced to flee their homes in 2012 due to natural disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes, according to Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre

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May 18, 2013

Natural disasters uprooted more than 32 million people in 2012

Posted by Chillymanjaro on May 18, 2013

32,4 million people were forced to flee their homes last year due to natural disasters such as floods, storms and earthquakes, according to a report released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre on May 13, 2013. According to the report, 98% of those uprooted were displaced by climate- and weather-related events. Climate change is believed to play an increasingly significant role in global disasters. 2012 Special Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change stated that, “disasters associated with climate extremes influence population mobility and relocation, affecting host and origin communities.”

This map shows internal displacement worldwide in 2012 by state and number of displaced people. CLICK ON IMAGE FOR LARGER VIEW (Credit: NRC/IDMC)

Floods in India and Nigeria were responsible for 41 % of displacement worldwide last year. Monsoon floods in India uprooted about 6.9 million people, while in Nigeria some 6.1 million were newly displaced. While Asia and Africa were hardest affected, some 1.3 million people were displaced in wealthy nations, especially the United States. Last year, the U.S. was among the 10 countries that experienced the most new displacement. Following Hurricane Sandy, most of those displaced were able to find refuge in adequate temporary shelter while displaced from their own homes.

The largest regional increase in the number of internally displaced people in 2012 was in the Middle East and North Africa, where 2.5 million people were forced to flee their homes. There were almost 6 million affected in the region at the end of 2012, a rise of 40 % on the 2011. Asia showed the second highest increase in new displacement after the Middle East and North Africa, with 1.4 million people forced to flee their homes during 2012.

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Landslide – State of California, [Lake County areas]

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May 13, 2013

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Potential water damage: Officials say water that has bubbled to the surface is playing a role, in the collapse of the hillside subdivision that has forced the evacuation of eight homes

Potential water damage: Officials say water that has bubbled to the surface is playing a role, in the collapse of the hillside subdivision that has forced the evacuation of eight homes

No more mail: A notice by the U.S. Postal Service warned residents of Lakeside Heights that due to the danger posed by the sinking ground, postal workers will no longer deliver mail to the area

No more mail: A notice by the U.S. Postal Service warned residents of Lakeside Heights that due to the danger posed by the sinking ground, postal workers will no longer deliver mail to the area

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Landslide in USA on Monday, 13 May, 2013 at 03:19 (03:19 AM) UTC.

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Home in a subdivision in Lake County are sinking, prompting officials to seek help. Eight homes are now abandoned and 10 others are under notice of imminent evacuation as a hilltop with sweeping vistas of Clear Lake and the Mt. Konocti volcano swallows the subdivision built 30 years ago. The Lake County Board of Supervisors asked Gov. Jerry Brown to declare an emergency so funding might be available to stabilize utilities and determine the cause of the collapse. On May 6, state Sen. Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) wrote a letter of support asking Brown for immediate action. The California Emergency Management Agency said Brown was still assessing the situation. On Wednesday, the state sent a water resources engineer and a geologist to look at the problem. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a representative the next day. Repairs were made to the area’s damaged public water system Friday, according to the Lake County Record-Bee. The situation has gotten so bad, mail delivery was ended to keep carriers out of danger. “It’s a slow-motion disaster,” said Randall Fitzgerald, a writer who bought his home in the Lakeside Heights project a year ago. Unlike Florida sinkholes that can gobble homes in an instant, this collapse in hilly volcanic country can move many feet in one day and just a fraction of an inch the next. Officials believe water that has bubbled to the surface is playing a role in the destruction. But nobody can explain why suddenly there is plentiful water atop the hill in a county with groundwater shortages.

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Lake County homes sinking; ‘it’s a slow-motion disaster’

From Associated Press

May 11, 2013, 5:06 p.m.

Home in a subdivision in Lake County are sinking, prompting officials to seek help.

Eight homes are now abandoned and 10 others are under notice of imminent evacuation as a hilltop with sweeping vistas of Clear Lake and the Mt. Konocti volcano swallows the subdivision built 30 years ago.

The Lake County Board of Supervisors asked Gov. Jerry Brown to declare an emergency so funding might be available to stabilize utilities and determine the cause of the collapse. On May 6, state Sen. Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) wrote a letter of support asking Brown for immediate action. The California Emergency Management Agency said Brown was still assessing the situation.

On Wednesday, the state sent a water resources engineer and a geologist to look at the problem. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) sent a representative the next day.

Repairs were made to the area’s damaged public water system Friday, according to the Lake County Record-Bee.

The situation has gotten so bad, mail delivery was ended to keep carriers out of danger.

“It’s a slow-motion disaster,” said Randall Fitzgerald, a writer who bought his home in the Lakeside Heights project a year ago.

Unlike Florida sinkholes that can gobble homes in an instant, this collapse in hilly volcanic country can move many feet in one day and just a fraction of an inch the next.

Officials believe water that has bubbled to the surface is playing a role in the destruction. But nobody can explain why suddenly there is plentiful water atop the hill in a county with groundwater shortages.

 

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Landslide – China, Tibet Autonomous Region, [Maizhokunggar County, Lhasa Prefecture] : Large landslide trapped 83 workers in a gold mining area in Tibet.

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March 30, 2013

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Landslide in China on Friday, 29 March, 2013 at 17:37 (05:37 PM) UTC.

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Chinese state media say a large landslide Friday trapped 83 workers in a gold mining area in Tibet. China Central Television cited a local official as saying the landslide occurred early in the morning and covered around 4 square kilometers (1.5 square miles) in the Maizhokunggar county of Lhasa, the regional capital. The workers were from a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corp. The reports said the landslide was caused by a “natural disaster” but did not provide specifics. It was unclear why the first news reports of the landslide came out several hours after it occurred. Rescue efforts were under way Friday night, the reports said. County officials reached by phone confirmed the landslide but had no further details. Calls to the company’s general phone line rang unanswered. Doctors reached at the local county hospital said they had been told to prepare to receive survivors but none had arrived. “We were ordered to make all efforts to receive the injured,” said a doctor who gave only her surname, Ge, in the hospital’s emergency section. Ge said the hospital transferred some of its patients to other facilities to increase the number of beds available and that 16 doctors were on duty.

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China: Landslide buries 83 in Tibet gold mine area

11:34p.m. EDT March 29, 2013

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BEIJING (AP) — No signs of life have been detected at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet more than 24 hours after a massive landslide buried 83 workers, Chinese state media said Saturday.

The state-run China Central Television said more than 2,000 rescuers have been dispatched to Lhasa’s Maizhokunggar county to search for the buried.

About 2.6 million cubic yards of mud, rock and debris swept through the area as the workers were resting and covered an area measuring around 1.5 square miles, CCTV said.

The miners worked for a subsidiary of the China National Gold Group Corp., a state-owned enterprise and the country’s largest gold producer. A woman who answered the call at its Beijing headquarters Saturday said she could not provide any information.

The disaster is likely to inflame critics of Chinese rule in Tibet who say Beijing’s interests are driven by the region’s mineral wealth and strategic position and come at the expense of the region’s delicate ecosystem and Tibetans’ Buddhist culture and traditional way of life.

The reports said at least two of the buried workers were Tibetan while most of the workers were believed to be ethnic Han Chinese, a reflection of how such large projects often create an influx of the majority ethnic group into the region.

The more than 2,000 police, firefighters, soldiers and medics deployed to the site, about 45 miles east of Lhasa, the regional capital, conducted searches armed with devices to detect signs of life and accompanied by sniffer dogs, reports said.

Around 30 excavators were also digging away at the site late Friday as temperatures fell to just below freezing.

The reports said the landslide was caused by a “natural disaster” but did not provide specifics. It was unclear why the first news reports of the landslide came out several hours after it occurred.

 

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Washington State : Whidbey Landslide Update

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March 28, 2013

by KING 5 News

Posted on March 28, 2013 at 6:21 AM

Updated today at 12:54 PM

COUPEVILLE, Wash. — It will be months before some people have full access to their homes following Wednesday’s quarter-mile wide landslide on Whidbey Island, firefighters said Thursday.

Four homes are being yellow tagged, which means the owners will have limited access.

The properties are located on Driftwood Way and Fircrest Avenue. At least five homes are said to be  in immediate danger. Another 35 homes were either under evacuation orders or had been cut off from the rest of Whidbey Island.

“I used to say ‘in a million years we’ll have waterfront property’ and now I can say 100 years or tomorrow. It’s unbelievable,” said Nancy Skullerud.

The slide in the Ledgewood neighborhood obliterated the hillside at about 3:45 a.m. Wednesday.

A two-lane road in the neighborhood was wiped out and pushed 300 feet down the slope. A new road must be built to get some people access to their homes. That could take weeks or months. Geologists will drill for water samples next week to determine when it will be safe to start building a road.

“It’s taken a while to soak it in to realize that life changes in five minutes,” said Skullerud. “Mother Nature always wins.”

KING 5′s Eric Wilkinson and Angela King contributed to this report

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GEOLOGICAL UPHEAVAL: Homes Evacuated After Massive Landslide On Whidbey Island, Washington!

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Published on Mar 27, 2013

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March 27, 2013 – UNITED STATES – Residents of a hillside overlooking scenic Puget Sound heard the thunder of a landslide that knocked one home off its foundation, and isolated or threatened more than two dozen others on Whidbey Island early Wednesday.

A man who escaped from the damaged home was evacuated by rescuers in an all-terrain vehicle, Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue Chief Ed Hartin said. Many of the homes are summer cabins or weekend getaways and were unoccupied. Eleven people from 16 homes along a road close to the water were evacuated by boat because the road was blocked by the landslide, he said. And, another 20 to 25 people were evacuated from 17 homes along a road higher up the hill that is being undermined by the slide. Land is falling away just 10 feet from one home. No one was injured when the slide broke loose about 4 a.m. in the Ledgewood community. One person was taken to a hospital with a condition unrelated to the slide. The cause of the slide is unknown. Residents that heard the slide about eight miles south of Coupeville described it as sounding like thunder. “It was a mix of rumbling and snapping trees,” Hartin said. “We were hearing the same thing when we arrived.” On Wednesday afternoon the slide still showed signs of movement, Hartin said. “It’s possible more homes could be lost. We’re trying to ensure the safety and awareness of people,” Hartin said. “There’s not anything we can do to stop the movement of the ground.” The slide area extends about 400 to 500 yards across the hillside and down 600 or 700 yards to the water, Hartin said. There has been no significant rain in recent days so the immediate cause of the slide is unknown. But the area has been prone to slides in the past, Hartin said. A geotechnical expert was being brought in to assess the slide and the danger to homes. If the slide stabilizes, some people might be allowed to return. But others have homes that are now unreachable. “Being cut off from the road, water and power,” residents had to leave, said Island County Sheriff Mark Brown. “It’s a pretty massive mudslide.”

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Washington State : Huge landslides damage, threaten homes on Whidbey Island

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March 27, 2013

by KING 5 News

Posted on March 27, 2013 at 8:45 AM

Updated today at 5:46 PM

Whidbey Island landslide – before and after

Credit: WA Dept. of Natural Resources

Landslides threatening homes

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Despair doesn’t come close to the way Whidbey Island resident Bret Holmes is feeling as he looks back over the past 24 hours.

“It felt like an earthquake and shook the house,” he said.

Residents were evacuated early Wednesday after massive landslides damaged one home and threatened or isolated two dozen more in Coupeville.  The initial slide happened around 4:15 a.m. along Driftwood Way in the Ledgewood Beach Community, also affecting homes on Fircrest Avenue. More landslides were reported throughout the day.

Holmes spent the day scrambling to pack his things and get out of the house that his parents once owned and that’s on the brink of being lost forever. Making matters worse, word from his insurance company is that if the house goes, he isn’t covered.

“It makes me sick to my stomach having to get up and go through this,” said Holmes.

Neighbors said it sounded like a sonic boom – a blast that obliterated about 600 feet of hillside in the middle of the night, taking with it a home where an 81-year-old cancer patient felt the ground starting to give way. He moved to his truck shortly before the earth disappeared below him.

Authorities have completed evacuations of 34 homes that were damaged, isolated or threatened by the mudslide. Emergency workers were trying to access parts of the damaged areas via property owned by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Central Whidbey Fire and Rescue Chief Ed Hartin says 11 other people from 16 homes along a road close to the water were evacuated by boat because the road was blocked by the landslide. Hartin says another 20 to 25 people were evacuated from along a road higher up the hill that is being undermined by the slide.

It will likely be days, if not weeks, before the evacuated residents are allowed to return. Some may never be able to return.

KING 5′s Eric Wilkinson contributed to this report.

 

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Global Cooling Back In Forecast After IPCC Steers Global Warming Into Iceberg

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March 27, 2013

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Mayan Calendar Guatamala Pyramid and End of Baktun13

By Harold Saive – Chemtrailsplanet.net

 

(3/27/2013) – The Mayan’s didn’t use their calendar to predict doom in 2012 but their 394 year Baktun cycle may predict a long period of low solar activity and years of extreme global cooling starting now.

Marking the end of the thirteenth Baktun on Dec 21, 2012 places the onset of solar events that led to the Maunder Minimum – also referred to as the “Little Ice Age”.

 

Are we ready yet for potentially disastrous impacts of space weather?

“Comparing a future solar event to the 1859 Carrington event: “Directly or indirectly, a comparable geomagnetic storm today (and foreseeable future) would likely include widespread and long-term disruptions on transportation and commerce, agriculture and food stocks, medical facilities, satellite-based communication and navigation systems, national security, etc.” — By Steve Trackton – The Capital Weather Gang – A review of the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum presented by The National Space Weather Program Council.

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Are we ready yet for potentially disastrous impacts of space weather?

“Comparing a future solar event to the 1859 Carrington event: “Directly or indirectly, a comparable geomagnetic storm today (and foreseeable future) would likely include widespread and long-term disruptions on transportation and commerce, agriculture and food stocks, medical facilities, satellite-based communication and navigation systems, national security, etc.” — By Steve Trackton – The Capital Weather Gang – A review of the 2012 Space Weather Enterprise Forum presented by The National Space Weather Program Council.

Our Sun is Losing Energy: The typical peak-to-peak solar cycle have long been established to be about 11 years. The last solar minimum began in 2001 following an unremarkable maximum. But in April 2009 the solar minimum was officially recognized as having lasted far longer than normal. It was not until the middle of 2010 when sunspot numbers began to increase, signalling an overdue, but very weak return to a solar maximum. Relative to Earth, the maximum would be even weaker than forecast due a mysterious absence of earth-directed solar flares – a persistent event that continues to defy the label of “coincidence.”

The health of Earth’s atmosphere - extending out to the magnetosphere – relies on the energy of solar flares to maintain what we have come to expect as a “normal” electrical balance between Earth, Sun and the solar system. For unknown reasons, what little solar flare activity is taking place has been mostly directed away from Earth – causing our atmosphere to experience conditions not much different than an extended “minimum” – as if the solar maximum had not yet returned. If flares continues to miss earth for much longer, the return of the next solar minimum could delay a replenishing solar charge of our magnetosphere for years.

Changes in our Solar System:

  • Along with a decline in solar energy NASA has detected increased seismic activity on Mars
  • The rotation of Venus and possibly Saturn has measurably slowed.
  • Jupiter has exhibited significant weather changes including loss of a characteristic “stripe” as it gained a new red spot.
  • During 2012 telescopes recorded a giant flash on Jupiter that was larger than Earth. NASA called it a comet or asteroid but didn’t explain the telltale concentric rings and the absence of evidence that anything penetrated Jupiter’s atmosphere.
  • The 30 year cycle of Saturn Storms has broken stride to appear ten years earlier than predicted.
  • Hubble has been scanning space for years but only recently has been able to “see” auroras on Uranus.
  • In 2005 data from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor and Odyssey missions revealed that the carbon dioxide “ice caps” near Mars’s south pole had been diminishing for three summers in a row.
  • Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory in Russia, says the Mars melting ice caps data is evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the sun.
  • Earthquakes are on the rise within our own moon.

 

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Landslide – Brazil, State of Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis : Heavy rains in Brazil triggered devastating mudslides yesterday killing at least 16 people

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March 20, 2013

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Landslide in Brazil on Tuesday, 19 March, 2013 at 04:01 (04:01 AM) UTC.

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Heavy rains have triggered mudslides that have killed at least ten people in a mountain town north of Rio de Janeiro, state officials said yesterday. Officials said that 14 inches of rain – more than a month’s worth – fell in 24 hours in the town of Petropolis. More than 900 people died in floods and mudslides in the same area two years ago.

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Landslide in Brazil on Tuesday, 19 March, 2013 at 04:01 (04:01 AM) UTC.

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Heavy rains in Brazil triggered devastating mudslides yesterday killing at least 16 people. The mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state was hit by 24 hours of continuous rainfall, leaving homes damaged. More than 500 people were forced to flee and authorities declared a state of emergency here in Petropolis. Rescue teams have been struggling to reach critical areas which are cut off by blocked roads. Among the dead are two members of the civil defence force. More than a month’s worth of rain fell in just 24 hours, experts say.

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Rains cause deadly landslides in Petropolis, Brazil

The aftermath of the landslides in the city of Petropolis

At least 27 people have been killed in landslides in a mountainous area north of Rio de Janeiro, after heavy rains.

The landslides hit the city of Petropolis, about 40 miles (65km) north of Rio, after a river burst its banks and flooded the city centre.

A baby and two emergency workers are among the victims, authorities say.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said more “drastic measures” may be needed to remove people living in areas of risk who ignore warnings.

“Our prevention system warns the people,” she told Brazilian media in Rome after a meeting the head of Food and Agriculture Organization, fellow Brazilian Jose Graziano.

“What I think is that a little more drastic measures will have to be taken so people don’t stay where they are not supposed to be.”

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An emergency task group of the Brazilian National Force has been sent to the region to assist local authorities.

Authorities say some areas had as much as 300mm of rain in 24 hours, whilst the normal monthly average for this time of year is around 270mm.

At least 50 people are believed to have lost their homes.

The area around Petropolis has seen deadly landslides before – 900 people were killed in an incident in 2011.

The BBC’s Julia Carneiro in Rio says promises from the authorities to invest in measures to prevent similar landslides were not fully implemented.

The city remains on high alert and further heavy rain is forecast. Schools are closed and residents have been told to stay in their homes.

Brazilian television has broadcast pictures showing houses destroyed and roads blocked by the landslides.

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Landslide – Philippines, Province of Leyte, Kananga : Five workers were killed and nine others trapped in a landslide at geothermal field in the eastern Philippines

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March 3, 2013

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Leyte Geothermal Field, Philippines 2009

 

Five killed, nine trapped in landslide in eastern Philippines

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Landslide in Philippines on Sunday, 03 March, 2013 at 04:59 (04:59 AM) UTC.

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Five workers were killed and nine others trapped in a landslide at a construction site in the eastern Philippines, police said yesterday. The victims were building anti-erosion railings on the side of a highland road in Kananga town in Leyte province, 540 kilometres south-east of Manila, when a mountain of soil collapsed on them, said police Senior Inspector Antonio Angcay. Steam pipes also exploded when hit by the landslide, which occurred after days of heavy rains, he said. The five bodies were recovered immediately after the accident on Friday, but efforts to rescue the nine trapped workers were hampered by heavy rain, Angcay said.

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Mystery sinkhole measuring SIX FEET deep across 500 feet of pavement on Arizona roadway might have been caused by a “geologic event,” according to the Arizona Department of Transportation. Geologists say it was a landslide.

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February 24, 2013

Mystery as giant sinkhole opens gaping chasms measuring SIX FEET deep across 500 feet of pavement on Arizona roadway

By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated Press Reporter

PUBLISHED: 00:00 EST, 22 February 2013 | UPDATED: 11:40 EST, 22 February 2013

A giant sinkhole opened on an Arizona road and ensnared two cars on Wednesday, leaving several gaping holes nearly six feet deep and closing the road indefinitely.

The Arizona Department of Transportation says the stretch of U.S. 89 in northern Arizona will remain closed indefinitely because of damage to the roadway about 25 miles south of Page. Two of the drivers ensnared by the sinkhole reported minor injuries.

While the agency is still trying to determine what exactly happened to cause the ground to shift beneath the road, the agency continues to assess the significant damage to the highway. Geotechnical engineers are currently evaluating the stability of the mountain slope on which the road sits.

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This photo shows the buckling of U.S. 89, about 25 miles south of Page, Arizona This photo shows the buckling of U.S. 89, about 25 miles south of Page, Arizona

The Arizona Department of Transportation is rerouting motorist off the heavily traveled highway between Arizona and Utah on to other roadwaysThe Arizona Department of Transportation is rerouting motorist off the heavily traveled highway between Arizona and Utah on to other roadways

‘This area encompasses close to 500 feet of damaged pavement, but we had the opportunity in the plane to circle the area twice and it looks like the settlement could be a lot larger,’ said Robert Samour, ADOT senior deputy state engineer of operations. ‘The area over the guardrail drops off a couple hundred feet; we saw some cracking in the soil down the slope, so I would say that this is probably a 500- to700-foot section that we’re going to have to take a good look at for settlement.’

There is no timetable to reopen the highway, which has over 150 feet of pavement that buckled approximately four to six feet.

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Arizona highway buckles due to ‘geologic event’

 

Ariz. – A ‘geologic event’ closed a northern Arizona highway Wednesday, after a 150-foot section of pavement buckled.

U.S. 89 in northern Arizona is closed in both directions about 25 miles south of Page.

Residents in the area reported what they thought was an earthquake Wednesday morning, but geologists say it was a landslide. The Arizona Department of Transportation says the buckling was not related to the weather.

The call came in around 4:30 a.m. There were a few minor accidents as a result.

“There’s three lanes, there’s a passing lane, the passing lane going up is the one that dropped, and the whole section to the west of that is also down,” said Jason Yazzie, Navajo Division of Transportation.

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Pavement buckles, closes US 89 south of Page

Posted: Feb 20, 2013 7:28 AM CST Updated: Feb 20, 2013 12:52 PM CST

By Steve Stout – email

(Source: Arizona Department of Transportation) A 150-foot section of U.S. 89 about 25 miles south of Page collapsed early Wednesday morning.

(Source: Arizona Department of Transportation) A 150-foot section of U.S. 89 about 25 miles south of Page collapsed early Wednesday morning.

A 150-foot section of U.S. 89 south of Page that buckled and sunk four feet Wednesday might have been caused by a “geologic event,” according to the Arizona Department of Transportation.

 

The road collapsed at mile post 526 just 2.5 miles north of the intersection with U.S. 89A, about 25 miles south of page, according to an ADOT spokesman. He said the incident was not related to the weather.

The road was closed in both directions and there was no estimation when the highway would reopen, said an ADOT spokesman.

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Landslide – State of Arizona, [About 25 miles south of Paige] : A deep, 150-foot-long crack in Highway 89 occurred this morning about 25 miles south of Page, and it’s unknown when the road might be repaired.

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February 21, 2013

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The Arizona Department of Transportation says a 150-foot section of US 89 buckled this morning about 25 miles south of Page, Arizona.
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Landslide in USA on Thursday, 21 February, 2013 at 06:50 (06:50 AM) UTC.

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Page is cut off from points directly south by a deep, 150-foot-long crack in Highway 89 that occurred this morning about 25 miles south of Page, and it’s unknown when the road might be repaired. The road appears to have split in a few places, and is divided by a fissure greater than 5 feet deep in one area. Three accidents resulted from drivers hitting the large divide, with the most serious involving a person whose airbag deployed. She was transported to Page with minor injuries, according to state law enforcement officials. Page Unified School District is using a bypass to get students home about 45 minutes to 1 hour later than normal today and Thursday. It plans to change its pickup and dropoff times until the road is repaired.

Highway 160 and State Route 98 are recommended as alternatives, adding about 49 extra miles to the trip between Page and Flagstaff. The agency is sending geotechnical experts up to look at the problem and does not know when it might be repaired. “We do know that it’s not going to be a short-term closure. This is significant damage and it’s going to require significant repair work,” said Tim Tait, ADOT spokesman. ADOT isn’t sure yet what happened, he said. “It’s really too early to speculate. We have geotechnical engineers that are en route to the seen. They’ll be able to place some monitors and get a sense of what’s happening,” Tait said. No seismic activity was reported in the area, the Arizona Earthquake Information Center out of Northern Arizona University reported. ADOT says weather wasn’t at fault.

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