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rockslide

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rockslide [′räk‚slīd]
(geology)
The sudden, rapid downward movement of newly detached bedrock segments over a surface of weakness, such as of bedding, jointing, or faulting. Also known as rock slip.
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CAIRO: Over a year after a massive rockslide killed an estimated 107 people, Cairenes living in unsafe slum areas remain at risk from rockslides and other dangers, Amnesty International said in a report issued yesterday.
Egypt not doing enough to protect slum residents, says Amnesty by Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
Summary: Little has changed in Egypt to move the poor from unsafe places and prevent a repetition of a rockslide in a Cairo shantytown that killed more than 100 people last year, Amnesty International said in Little has changed in Egypt to move the poor from unsafe places and prevent a repetition of a rockslide in a Cairo shantytown that killed more than 100 people last year, Amnesty International said in a report on Tuesday.
Amnesty says Egypt's poor still live in peril by Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia)
This came during his visit to the village that was exposed to a rockslide in December 2005.
By: Almigdad Mojalli (Local) by Yemen Times (Sana'a, Yemen)
 
 
 
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