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About 66 million years ago, scientists believe, a city-size asteroid crashed into Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, precipitating a series of worldwide catastrophes: a massive earthquake, landslides, wildfires, tsunamis and temperatures reaching 700 degrees Fahrenheit.

Neighbouring Nepal, to the south of Tibet, has also been battered by torrential rains, triggering severe flooding and landslides that have killed more than 50 people.

Earthquakes trigger submarine landslides, and leave deposits called “turbidites” that are buried over time.

Mahan won the mayor’s race — narrowly, in a major upset — and was reelected two years later in a November 2024 landslide.

The police, however, said that they could not take any chances as the area was prone to landslides during the monsoon season.