via Liveleak

A lucky escape for a herder in Yemen

Liveleak has a couple of new landslide videos that are worth a look.  First, there is this one, collected in Yemen and posted a week ago:

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It appears that the drivers on the road (note the vehicles passing just before the main failure – see the image at the top) and the herder below the road had a lucky escape.

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There goes the garden…

And from Israel there is a rather nice (though distinctly dangerous for those down the hill) retaining wall failure on a large scale:

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