| 1. | The term incorporates earth slides, rock falls, debris flows, and mudslides, amongst mass movements.
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| 2. | The most common type were rock falls, followed by debris slides, slumps, earth slides, rock-block slides and rock avalanches.
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| 3. | Two of the earth slides showed a delayed movement, with most displacement occurring a few days after the main shock.
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| 4. | As they were making their way down late Friday, another earth slide sent tons of mud down on top of them.
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| 5. | Hundreds of workers died in accidents of all sorts _ crushed by railroad cars, blown up by dynamite, buried in massive earth slides.
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| 6. | Ten of the victims are part of a rescue team, sent down to locate a miner trapped Friday afternoon after an earth slide.
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| 7. | In a quake caused by what is called a slip-strike fault, like the San Andreas, the blocks of earth slide past each other horizontally.
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| 8. | Borland said a sliding layer of ground beneath the reservoir caused the wall to break, but the cause of the earth slide was still unknown.
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| 9. | Borland said a sliding layer of ground beneath the reservoir had caused its walls to break, but the cause of the earth slide still was not known.
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| 10. | Borland said that a sliding layer of ground beneath the reservoir had caused the wall to break, but the cause of the earth slide was still not known.
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