mudslides

Mudslides hit parts of Southern California after a tropical storm blew through the area. Footage shows an officer rescuing a family during the storm over the weekend.

At least 69 people have been killed in flooding and landslides that hit cities across Iran, Iran’s Crisis Management Organization said on Sunday. Nezhad Jahani, a senior official at the organization, said at least 45 people are still missing in Tehran and three other provinces following the recent floods, which damaged at least 20,000 residential […]

PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico—At least three people were confirmed dead and at least five others reported missing on Tuesday after record-breaking storm Agatha battered southern Mexico, local authorities said on Tuesday. Heavy rainfall in the region is expected to continue, and the remnants of the storm are likely to form a tropical depression by Friday, the […]

GAUHATI, India—At least 11 people have died in floods and mudslides triggered by heavy rains in India’s remote northeast region, officials said Tuesday. Several railway stations were closed because of floods, said Nazreen Ahmed, a senior official in Assam’s Dima Hasao district. She said nearly 200,000 people in the district were cut off from the […]

PETROPOLIS, Brazil—Rio de Janeiro state’s government has confirmed 94 deaths from floods and mudslides that swept away homes and cars in the city of Petropolis. But even as families prepared to bury their dead, it was unclear Thursday how many bodies remained trapped in the mud. Rubens Bomtempo, mayor of the German-influenced city nestled in […]

PETROPOLIS, Brazil—The death toll from devastating mudslides and floods that swept through a mountainous region of Rio de Janeiro state has reached 78, Gov. Claudio Castro said Wednesday afternoon. The city of Petropolis was slammed by a deluge Tuesday, and Castro said almost 400 people were left homeless. Searchers picked through the wreckage throughout the […]

BELLINGHAM, Wash.—Nearly 50,000 Washington state electrical customers still had no power Tuesday after days of heavy rain triggered mudslides and floods and forced the closure of the West Coast’s main north-south highway near the Canadian border, officials said. The rains caused by an atmospheric river—a huge plume of moisture extending over the Pacific and into […]

SACRAMENTO—Powerful storms pummeling parts of California were expected to hit the state’s southern mountain ranges on Thursday, raising fears of mudslides on hills stripped bare from last year’s wildfires. Winds of up to 120 mph swept through the northern Sierra Nevada mountains near Lake Tahoe when the storms there peaked earlier this week, and the […]

GUATEMALA CITY/TEGUCIGALPA—The death toll from torrential downpours unleashed by storm Eta leapt on Friday as Guatemalan soldiers reached a mountain village where around 100 people were killed by a landslide, adding to dozens of other dead in Central America and Mexico. Many of those who lost their lives in the village of Queja in the […]

Rescue workers waded through muddy, waist-high waters on Oct. 14, searching for missing people.

SAUSALITO, California—Authorities warn that mudslides are still possible on Friday, Feb. 15, even after a damaging storm moved through California, trapping people in floodwaters, triggering a debris flow that destroyed homes, and forcing residents to flee communities scorched by wildfires last year. The powerful system swept in from the Pacific Ocean and unleashed rain, snow […]

LOS ANGELES—The search for survivors of the deadly mudslides in parts of California’s scenic Santa Barbara County continued Sunday even as hopes dwindled to find anyone else alive, officials said. “We’re still in rescue mode and we still hope to find someone alive, although the chances of that are becoming slim,” said Justin Cooper, a […]

Floods and mudslides continue to plague Peru as of April 1. Peru’s Piura River was overflowing at a rate of 1,300 square feet (1,200 square meters) per second. The ongoing disaster has killed more than 100 people and devastated the country’s infrastructure. More than 200 bridges and more than 1,200 miles (2,000 kilometers) of highway […]

At least 14 people have died and some 30,000 people have been affected by heavy flooding throughout Peru, the government and Operation Centre for National Emergencies (Indeci) reported on Wednesday (February 1), as a state of emergency was declared in the capital, Lima.   Rain triggered floods which destroyed a bridge and blocked the Central […]