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A landslide is the movement of rock, debris, or earth down a slope due to gravity. A sinkhole is a depression in the ground without natural surface drainage, causing water to collect underground. Several incidents are described, including a 2016 sinkhole in Japan that swallowed a road and was quickly repaired, and landslides in the Philippines induced by heavy rain and typhoons that killed over 200 people by burying homes and villages in mud and debris. Geologists noted that some areas were vulnerable due to geological traits and that interventions could have prevented some disasters.

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A landslide is the movement of rock, debris, or earth down a slope due to gravity. A sinkhole is a depression in the ground without natural surface drainage, causing water to collect underground. Several incidents are described, including a 2016 sinkhole in Japan that swallowed a road and was quickly repaired, and landslides in the Philippines induced by heavy rain and typhoons that killed over 200 people by burying homes and villages in mud and debris. Geologists noted that some areas were vulnerable due to geological traits and that interventions could have prevented some disasters.

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A landslide is defined as the movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope.

Landslides are a
type of "mass wasting," which denotes any down-slope movement of soil and rock under the direct
influence of gravity.

A sinkhole is a depression in the ground that has no natural external surface drainage. Basically, this
means that when it rains, all of the water stays inside the sinkhole and typically drains into the
subsurface.

Five lanes of road vanished in the Japanese city of Fukuoka in 2016 as a sinkhole nearly 100 feet wide
and 50 feet deep sucked the pavement away and then promptly filled with water. What made this
sinkhole most extraordinary was the fact that Japanese officials had the road repaired in a matter of
days. But it all may have gone too quickly as more settling of the earth shifted the new roadway a few
inches following repairs.
On August 3, 1999, heavy rain induced by Typhoon Ising (Olga) spelled disaster for residents of Cherry
Hills Subdivision in Antipolo City, when the ground beneath them broke apart and slid down the
mountain. (READ: The ghost of Cherry Hills) Houses went down along with the landslide, while those
living down the slope were buried in mud and concrete. A total of 60 people died. University of the
Philippines geologists who looked into the disaster argued that while heavy rains may have set off the
landslide, certain geological traits of the area where the subdivision stood made it vulnerable. Structural
interventions could have averted the disaster, but that would have made the cost of the project
prohibitive for the low-income sector.

2003 Panaon Island (Southern Leyte) debris flow A low pressure area brought nonstop rain to Panaon
Island at the tip of Southern Leyte on December 19, 2003. That evening, loose soil, boulders, and debris
rolled down towards houses in Barangay Pinut-an in San Ricardo town, and in Sitio Lutao (Barangay
Poblacion) and Barangay Punta in Liloan town. Authorities reported 154 people dead in Panaon Island
due to the landslides.

Over 1,200 people died on February 11, 2006, when an earthquake triggered an avalanche of mud and
boulders down a mountain slope towards Guinsaugon village in Saint Bernard, Southern Leyte. The
landslide caught residents by surprise that day, but it had been building up for quite some time,
following intense rainfall in the days leading up to the disaster. In addition, geologists said that warning
signs about the risk of landslides in the area went unheeded. (READ: Lessons from Guinsaugon: How do
landslides happen?)

2017 Biliran landslides On December 16, 2017, 4 towns in Biliran province were affected not only by
rains brought by Tropical Storm Urduja (Kai-tak) but also by landslides. At least 42 people died in Naval,
Caibiran, Biliran, and Almeria, while 14 others were missing. The Mines and Geosciences Bureau said
many factors – like the very high slope gradient in the affected areas and unstable grounds due to road
development, farming, and poor drainage systems – mainly contributed to the landslides, not the
supposed "open-pit mining" operations in the province.

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