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UN agency says survivors "unlikely" from Papua New Guinea landslide
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The United Nations migration agency has warned of a significant risk of disease outbreak in the affected area, which was previously a mountainside community in Enga province. Much of the local water supply flows through the site, increasing concerns about contamination and public health risks.
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Although this landslide does not appear to have been directly triggered by an earthquake, the frequent earthquakes caused by plates colliding build steep slopes and high mountains that can become very unstable.
Papua New Guinea sits right on a plate boundary, where these large, rigid parts of the earth plough into each other.
Deforestation can make landslides more prevalent by destroying this biological mesh.
In this year, we have had extraordinary rainfall that has caused flooding in river areas, sea level rise in coastal areas, and landslips in a few areas.
Nature, through a disastrous landslip, submerged or covered the village and from our initial estimation over 2,000 people would have perished in this disaster.
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sources
- 1.CTV News
- 2.ABC News (Australia)
- 3.CGTN
- 4.The Times of India
- 5.Al Jazeera
- 6.BBC
- 7.Le Monde
- 8.The Guardian
- 9.France 24
- 10.ABC News
- 11.Associated Press
- 12.Radio New Zealand
perspectives
countries
organizations
- 1.United Nations
- 2.UN International Organization for Migration
- 3.UNICEF Papua New Guinea
- 4.University of Adelaide
- 5.UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- 6.UN Development Program
- 7.CARE International
- 8.CARE Papua New Guinea
- 9.International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent
- 10.Massey University
- 11.RAAF
- 12.Te Kunenga Ki Purehuroa
persons
- 1.Sandis Tsaka
- 2.Serhan Aktoprak
- 3.Niels Kraaier
- 4.Alan Collins
- 5.Evit Kambu
- 6.James Marape
- 7.Justine McMahon
- 8.Nicholas Booth
- 9.Angela Kearne
- 10.Dave Petley
- 11.Frida Yeahkal
- 12.Glenn Banks