Landslides When a lot of soil, rocks and other stuff slides down a hill it is called a landslide. Landslides are caused by rain and melting snow that goes into cracks in the earth on top of a mountain or hill. Then the earth is weakened because the water makes the soil loose. Landslides can also be caused by erosion. Erosion is when things like a river or mining slowly eats away the bottom of …showed first 75 words of 380 total…

…showed last 75 words of 380 total…at 10:41 pm on the night of 9th October, millions of tons of rock slid down from Mount Toc into the Vaiont reservoir. It went across the reservoir and came back and made a 100-metre high wave. The wave went over the 262-metre high dam and into the valley below. Antofagasta, Chile         In Antofagasta, Chile, a landslide tore away the ground underneath some houses and they were left hanging on a cliff make by the landslide.