And if the landslide dam held that long, then they would have their pressure valve.

It would engulf them if the landslide dam lasted long enough.

These landslides occasionally block the river and form landslide dams.

The lake lies behind a landslide dam, thought to have been created by a prehistoric earthquake.

This appears to be the first example of modification of a natural landslide dam for power generation.

Some landslide dams are as high as the largest existing artificial dam.

In the worst-case scenario, failure of a landslide dam could cause catastrophic floods.

The quake created a landslide dam on the Rivière de Grand Goâve.

The lake was formed by a prehistoric landslide dam, similarly to Lake Silvaplana.

The 2008 Sichuan earthquake caused a landslide dam on the river which created Tangjiashan Lake.

The Kangding Louding earthquake of 1786 caused a landslide dam in the Dadu.

The major causes for landslide dams investigated by 1986 are landslides from excessive precipitation and earthquakes, which account for 84%.

The water impounded by a landslide dam may create a dam reservoir (lake) that may last from short times to several thousand years.

At that time, it flowed over the landslide dam, completely submerging lower Shishkat and partly flooded Gulmit.

Occupying part of a valley carved by ice in the Pleistocene, the lake formed behind a landslide dam across Strawberry Creek.

The 12 January 2010 7.0 tremor created a landslide which formed a landslide dam blocking the river, that can potentially contain a large basin of water.

The "Gros Ventre landslide" is an example of a huge, short-lived and disastrous landslide dam (60 m high).

The flood that resulted from the landslide dam failure reached the city of Leshan on 11 June, causing collapse of part of the city walls.

Because of their rather loose nature and absence of controlled spillway, landslide dams frequently fail catastropically and lead to downstream flooding, often with high casualties.

Landslide dams are responsible for two types of flooding: backflooding (upstream flooding) upon creation and downstream flooding upon failure.

Although if they could create some kind of escape valve, to take the pressure off the landslide dam. . . . Slowly the wind tattered the dust away.

The Waikaremoana Hydroelectric Power Scheme appears to be the only example of a hydroelectric power station being built on a natural landslide dam.

The Usoi Dam is a natural landslide dam along the Murghab River in the Central Asian country of Tajikistan.

Natural landslide dams are usually short-lived, but some have been known to fail after long periods-131 years in the case of Lake Yashinkul in the former Soviet Union.

A landslide dam on Sichuan's Dadu River, created by an earthquake ten days earlier, burst and caused a flood that extended 1400 km downstream and killed 100,000 people.