rockslide

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A rockslide was reported on Highway 14 midway between Santa Clarita and Palmdale.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 24, 2025

In 2017, a massive rockslide came down close to the village of Bondo, killing eight hikers.

From BBC • Aug. 2, 2025

After hiking 886 feet, I was eyeing one historic abandoned fjord farm, Skageflå, where, before it was partially destroyed in an 1873 rockslide, parents tied ropes around children so they wouldn’t fall into the fjord.

From National Geographic • Oct. 20, 2023

The rockslide took place in the Ein Gedi Nature Reserve on the western shore of the Dead Sea, a popular tourist site.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 24, 2023

The doorway through which she’d fallen was ten feet off the ground, now completely blocked with debris that had cascaded into the room, making a rockslide.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan