landslides

Traumatised survivors of the massive landslide estimated to have buried hundreds in Papua New Guinea have been slow to move to safer ground.

Authorities fear a second landslide and a disease outbreak are looming at the scene of Papua New Guinea's mass-casualty disaster because of water streams and bodies trapped beneath debris.

Australia will send at least $2.5 million in humanitarian aid to help its closest neighbour after the government in Port Moresby issued an open call for help.

Local officials had initially put the death toll on Friday at 100 or more. Only five bodies and a leg of a sixth victim had been recovered by Sunday.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said Australia stands ready to asssist Papua New Guinea after a massive landslide devastated a remote village, with fears that more than 100 people have been killed.

The landslide is believed to have hit Kaokalam, a village in the Enga Province around 600 kilometres north-west of Port Moresby.

Angelina Smith, 47, and her partner Luciano Kross were inside a villa in Jatiluwih village when the landslide surged down.

Two children were killed when a hillside collapsed along a river in Northern California, which has been hit by a series of winter storms.

There are fears the workers are buried under the ground as rescue workers scramble to assess the situation.

Rescue efforts were underway to find victims buried in 18 separate houses.

The only road leading into the remote community of Mallacoota, around 500km east of Melbourne, was blocked.

Police said at least four cars and a bus skidded off the road and crashed, and three people were hospitalised.

Residents have been forced out of their homes after rain caused significant damage to a neighbouring commercial development, causing a landslide.

Australian tourists on a family holiday have a long recovery ahead after the holiday home they were staying in collapsed in a landslide caused by Auckland's floods.

More than 90 people were sleeping on an organic farm when the dirt tumbled from a road about 30 metres above the site.

Search teams have recovered seven dead, including a three-week-old infant and a pair of young siblings, buried in mud and debris that hurtled down a mountainside and through a densely populated port city on the resort island of Ischia, officials said today.

Heavy rainfall triggered landslides early Saturday on the southern Italian island of Ischia that collapsed buildings and left as many as 12 people missing.

Villagers haunted by a killer tsunani decades ago, ran to higher ground where they were buried alive by a storm-driven landslide.

Cleanup efforts and damage assessments are underway east of Los Angeles after heavy rains unleashed mudslides in a mountain area scorched by a wildfire two years ago.

Nearly 200 villagers were injured, mostly in landslides in the hard-hit city of Baybay.

British-born Mehraab Nazir, 49, and his nine-year-old son were killed when a shelf of rock fell on his family on a path near Wentworth Falls on Monday.

The pair are part of a British family of five caught in the tragedy while hiking on a path near Wentworth Falls, NSW about 1.30pm yesterday.

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The Northern Rivers town of Main Arm has experienced a landslide after the region was hit with extreme rain over the course of the week.

At least 12 people have been killed by landslides in Brazil's Minas Gerais state since the weekend.

There are at least 13 people dead and dozens are missing after a landslide caused rocks and heavy boulders to crash onto a highway in northern India.

Torrential rains has caused multiple disasters on remote eastern Indonesian islands as well as in East Timor.

As Australia continues to recover from one of the worst bushfires seasons on record, a new threat is emerging. High rainfall has increased the threat of landslides,

Residents in northeastern Japan on Sunday cleaned up clutter in stores and homes after a strong earthquake set off a landslide on a highway, stopped trains and caused power blackouts for thousands of people.

The landslip occurred on Armidale Road, approximately six kilometres east of Bellbrook around 2.30pm on Monday January 4.

During the deluge, Upper Springbrook, in the Gold Coast hinterland, received 952 millimetres of rain during the 96 hours to 9am on Tuesday.

A huge landslide has left a trail of destruction in the Gold Coast hinterland last night as wild weather continues to hit Queensland.

At least 162 people have been killed in a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar.

Eight houses and a slab of land have been swept into the sea by a mudslide in Arctic Norway.

Close to 1000 people are believed to be stranded in New Zealand after severe storms caused flooding and landslides on the country's South Island over the weekend.

Japanese authorities have directed more than one million residents in the south to evacuate as heavy rains batter the region.

Rescuers have recovered six more bodies buried under tons of mud from a landslide that crashed on to a hilly village on Indonesia's main island of Java.

Torrential rains triggered flash floods and landslides on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 27 people.

Rescue workers are combing through a mountain of mud and rock trying to find survivors after a landslide killed at least six people in Colombia.

At least 90 people have been killed and more than 100 are missing following a huge landslide near a jade mine in northern Myanmar, according to state media.

A day of massive landslides in north-western China has left a highway inaccessible as authorities work to clear thousands of tonnes of natural debris.