• 21 October 1993 The man-made Pantai Remis landslide caused a new cove to be formed in the coastline.
• 11 December 1993 - 48 people were killed when a block of the Highland Towers collapsed at Taman Hillview, Ulu Klang, Selangor.
• 30 June 1995 - 20 people were killed in the landslide at Genting Highlands slip road near Karak Highway.
• 6 January 1996 - A landslide in the North-South Expressway (NSE) near Gua Tempurung, Perak.
• 29 August 1996 - A mudflow near Pos Dipang Orang Asli settlement in Kampar, Perak, 44 people were killied in this tragedy.
• 15 May 1999 - A landslide near Bukit Antarabangsa, Ulu Klang, Selangor. Most of the Bukit Antarabangsa civilians were trapped.
• 20 November 2002 - The bungalow of the Affin Bank chairman General (RtD) Tan Sri Ismail Omar collapse causing landslide in Taman Hillview, Ulu Klang, Selangor.
• December 2003 - A rockfall in the New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE) near the Bukit Lanjan interchange caused the expressway to close for more than six months.
• 31 May 2006 - Four persons were killed in the landslides at Kampung Pasir, Ulu Klang, Selangor.
• 26 December 2007 – Two villagers were buried alive in a major landslide, which destroyed nine wooden houses in Lorong 1, Kampung Baru Cina, Kapit, Sarawak.
• 17 January 2008 - Two foreign workers were killed after they were buried in a landslide while working at a plantation in Cameron Highlands.
• 17 October 2008 - Two Indonesians were killed after they were buried alive by tonnes of sand in a landslide in Ganesan Quarry, Hulu Langat near Kajang, Selangor.
• 19 October 2008 - Four families evacuated from houses along the banks of Sungai Kayu Ara in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, after landslide there.
• 22 October 2008 - Tonnes of earth came crashing down a hill onto the grounds of the Taman Terubong Jaya apartments in Butterworth where over 1,000 residents were staying.
• 30 November 2008 - Two sisters were buried alive when a landslide hit their bungalow in Ulu Yam Perdana near Kuala Kubu Baru, Selangor.
• 4 December 2008 - 300 people were forced to evacuate two buildings when a landslide caused part of the retaining wall of a car park to collapse in Jalan Semantan, Kuala Lumpur.
• 6 December 2008 - 4 dead and 15 people injured in a major landslide at Bukit Antarabangsa that buried numerous homes in the area
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In Malaysia, landslide are regular natural disasters which happen at the hillsides such as at Cameron Higland Pahang, Hulu Klang Selangor, Penang hillside in Peninsular Malaysia and Mount Kinabalu area and Canada Hill in East Cost Malaysia. Landslide defines a wide range of ground movement, such as rock falls, deep failure of slopes, and shallow debris flows.
All post on this blog is the summary/abstract of paper presented in various conferences by the person mentioned at the end of the post. Any data or digital copy, if needed please request officially to the address;
Senior Assistant Director,
Landslide Forensic Unit,
Slope Engineering Branch, Block F, 12th Floor,
JKR H/quaters
50582 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA.
or refer to the first name on any of the abstract at the same addrtess.
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