Major rock slide causes big problems
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First it was falling rocks -- and now it&#39;s falling snow that&#39;s keeping a Colorado highway closed. The snow is delaying repairs to a section of Interstate 70 -- where boulders as big as vans rained down on the road on Thanksgiving Day.
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For centuries, San Juan's fortified stone walls have withstood the assaults of waves and cannonballs. But the vibrations of traffic and the weight of heavy tourist buses are causing parts of the walls to crumble.
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Dozens of casualties are reported from tidal waves and earth tremors in southern and eastern Asia.
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Tidal waves, or tsunami, often set off by undersea earthquakes, have caused several major disasters in coastal communities over the years.
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A huge landslide destroys a large part of the Valley of the Geysers, one of Russia's greatest natural wonders.
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Persistent rain in northern Japan has triggered fears of fresh landslides in the wake of powerful earthquakes which have shaken the region.
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First came the sickening crack of splitting earth, then a sudden roar as dirt and vegetation swallowed home after home. Alerted to the landslide by screams and honking horns, some in this sliver of a town found themselves literally racing the fast-moving flow downhill as it tore through cars and telephone poles.
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Inspectors on Thursday quadrupled to 240 the number of possible ceiling bolt problems in a Big Dig tunnel where a woman was crushed by falling concrete, adding to the urgency of the growing debate over who should ensure the safety of the troubled project.
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The hazards of this hostile continent include ice, fire, wind and whiteout. And then there's the Crud.
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This unconventional resource offers plenty of problems -- and one giant opportunity.
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Persistent rain triggers fears of fresh landslides in the wake of earthquakes that have shaken northern Japan.
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By Neil Gonzales  ATHERTON -- Problems with Atherton's building procedures have resulted in some of the town's large homes possibly becoming fire hazards, according to a San Mateo County Civil Grand Jury interim report released this week.
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. Road crews in Colorado hope to open a few lanes of Interstate 70 today that were hit by a rock slide. More than three dozen boulders, some of them the size of vans, landed on the highway
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By Margie Wood, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 16--Pueblo faces threefold problems from Fountain Creek, all of them caused or aggravated by rapid growth in Colorado Springs, Jane Rawlings told members of the Pachyderms Republican club on Friday.
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Competition and merchandise are posing some big problems.
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By CHASE SQUIRES DENVER - Thousands of travelers heading to ski areas for the holiday weekend were stalled by giant traffic jams Saturday as highways were blocked by crews removing snow slides.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.