- Storms and rainfall-induced landslips in the aftermath of cyclone Remal killed several across three northeastern States. Mizoram was the worst affected state.
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Cyclone Remal made landfall in low-lying Bangladesh and neighbouring states of India.
- It was one of the quickest-forming and longest-lasting.
- In terms of its land duration, it is one of the longest (36 hours) in Bangladesh’s history, as per the director of the state-run Bangladesh Meteorological Department.
- The cyclone formed more quickly than almost all the cyclones they have monitored in recent decades.
- Landslips also known as landslides are a type of Mass Movement.
- Landslips are relatively rapid and perceptible movements.
- A slump is the slipping of one or several units of rock debris with a backward rotation with respect to the slope over which the movement takes place.
- Rapid rolling or sliding of earth debris without backward rotation of mass is known as debris slide.
- Debris fall is nearly a free fall of earth debris from a vertical or overhanging face.
- Sliding of individual rock masses down bedding, joint or fault surfaces is a rock slide. Over steep slopes, rock sliding is very fast and destructive. rockslide which affects materials up to a substantial depth.
- Rockfall is free falling of rock blocks over any steep slope keeping itself away from the slope. Rock falls occur from the superficial layers of the rock face.
Dig Deeper: Read about the difference between Weathering and Mass Movements.
