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The major landslide at Rwankuba in western Rwanda on 6th May 2018. Image tweeted by the Rwanda Red Cross.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n .<\/p>\n The online newspaper KT Press has a decent report about the landslide, which also notes that a further three people were killed by the failure of a retaining wall in Giticyinyoni in Nyarugenge district.\u00a0 The same newspaper also has an account<\/a> of both the landslide itself and the aftermath, describing it as follows:<\/p>\n The evening of May 6 was normal and peaceful. Francois Nzabamwita, a resident of Bucyurabuhoro Village, Rwankuba Sector in Karongi District (Western Rwanda) left home to watch a football game at a bar in the neighbouring village. A heavy downpour followed till the end of the game.\u00a0 On realizing the rain wouldn\u2019t stop, Nzabamwita decided to brave it. But a few meters to his home, a huge force swept him away \u2013 along with his house and everything in its path. A large section of the steep mountain had given way.\u00a0 Nzabamwita survived the ordeal but the horror is still fresh on his mind.\u00a0 \u201cFortunately, I managed to rescue a woman with a baby,\u201d he said as hundreds of mourners gathered to bury the dead.\u00a0 For the entire night, locals struggled to find survivors. Nzabamwita says he witnessed an elderly man being pulled out of tons of mixture of mud, rocks and wood.<\/em><\/p>\n The landslide itself appear to have been caused by a series of shallow regolith failures on the steep back wall.\u00a0 This looks like a classic static liquefaction event in which the debris fluidises to form a highly mobile flow – in essence a much larger version of the events shown in the Papamoa landslide video from New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On 6th May a major rainfall triggered landslide struck Bucyurabuhoro, in Karongi District in western Rwanda, killing 18 people and injuring a further 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":27675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,469,959,1116],"class_list":["post-27670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-africa","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-rwanda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}