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Index 2017 Sichuan landslide

A landslide occurred at about 05:38 local time on 24 June 2017 in Diexi Town, Mao County, Sichuan Province in south-western China.[1]

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  1. 24 relations: Al Jazeera Media Network, Batholith, Chengdu, China, Coordinated Universal Time, Diexi, Mao County, Epicenter, Geological hazard, Landslide, Landslide dam, Mao County, Min River (Sichuan), Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Outburst flood, Qiang people, Reuters, Sichuan, Sichuan Basin, Tibetan Plateau, Time in China, Xinhua News Agency, 1933 Diexi earthquake, 2008 Sichuan earthquake, 2010 Gansu mudslide.

  2. 2017 disasters in China
  3. Environmental disasters in China
  4. History of Sichuan
  5. June 2017 events in China
  6. Landslides in 2017
  7. Landslides in China

Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.

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Batholith

A batholith is a large mass of intrusive igneous rock (also called plutonic rock), larger than in area, that forms from cooled magma deep in the Earth's crust.

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Chengdu

Chengdu is the capital city of the Chinese province of Sichuan.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Diexi, Mao County

Diexi is a town in Mao County, Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan, China.

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Epicenter

The epicenter, epicentre, or epicentrum in seismology is the point on the Earth's surface directly above a hypocenter or focus, the point where an earthquake or an underground explosion originates.

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Geological hazard

A geologic hazard or geohazard is an adverse geologic condition capable of causing widespread damage or loss of property and life.

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Landslide

Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.

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Landslide dam

A landslide dam or barrier lake is the natural damming of a river by some kind of landslide, such as a debris flow, rock avalanche or volcanic eruption.

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Mao County

Mao County or Maoxian (Qiang: Shgvunyi) is a county in Ngawa Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China.

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Min River (Sichuan)

The Min River is a in central Sichuan province, China.

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Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture

Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, also known as Aba (Qiang: Rrmeabba Shbea Rrmea Nyujwju Gvexueaj Legea), is an autonomous prefecture of northwestern Sichuan, bordering Gansu to the north and northeast and Qinghai to the northwest.

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Outburst flood

In geomorphology, an outburst flood—a type of megaflood—is a high-magnitude, low-frequency catastrophic flood involving the sudden release of a large quantity of water.

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Qiang people

The Qiang people (Qiangic: Rrmea) are an ethnic group in China.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Sichuan

Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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Sichuan Basin

The Sichuan Basin, formerly transliterated as the Szechwan Basin, sometimes called the Red Basin, is a lowland region in southwestern China.

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Tibetan Plateau

The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.

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Time in China

The time in China follows a single standard time offset of UTC+08:00 (eight hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time) based on the National Time Service Center of Chinese Academy of Sciences located in Mount Li, Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, even though the country spans five geographical time zones.

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Xinhua News Agency

Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.

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1933 Diexi earthquake

The 1933 Diexi earthquake occurred in Diexi, Mao County, Sichuan, Republic of China on August 25 with a moment magnitude of 7.3 and a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme).

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2008 Sichuan earthquake

An earthquake occurred in the province of Sichuan, China at 14:28:01 China Standard Time on May 12, 2008. 2017 Sichuan landslide and 2008 Sichuan earthquake are History of Sichuan and landslides in China.

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2010 Gansu mudslide

The 2010 Gansu mudslide was a deadly mudslide in Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, China that occurred at midnight on 8 August 2010. 2017 Sichuan landslide and 2010 Gansu mudslide are landslides in China.

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See also

2017 disasters in China

Environmental disasters in China

History of Sichuan

June 2017 events in China

Landslides in 2017

Landslides in China

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Sichuan_landslide

Also known as Maoxian landslide, Xinmo landslide.