What is "landslides"

Usage examples of "landslides".

Even though the fires would burn themselves out, the roads across the Sierra would be permanently blocked by many fallen trees and by landslides and washouts upon the denuded slopes.

Everything to the east, across the Sierra Nevada, would be completely blocked by fallen trees and landslides, and the roads to the north would probably be the same.

They had encountered only a few minor washouts and landslides on the highway to Los Angeles, nothing that the jeep could not negotiate in four-wheel drive.

Little spills of red-beige sand lay on the sidewalk here and there, a reminder of the landslides that sometimes closed PCH as the unstable hillsides eroded, their substance trying to complete its journey from the Santa Monica mountains to the sea.

Another problem is, of course, that dust storms do tend to accumulate in the Canyon more than on the ordinary surface, and there are landslides now and then, but heavens, we don worry about that.

We know where the faults are and where the landslides are likely to occur and no one digs in there.

I said to him that the landslides might break the dome and we would lose all the air.