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50 Million Ton Landslide in Turkey
June 21, 2012 | NASA Earth Observatory

This event occurred in 2011.

“At 10 a.m. on February 10, 2011, disaster struck the Çöllolar coalfield in central Turkey, near the city of Elbistan. The northeastern wall of an open-pit mine collapsed, sending about 50 million tons of material into the mine. The debris buried and killed ten workers. The collapse was the second at the same mine within a week. Four days earlier, a smaller landslide damaged the opposite wall and killed one person.” Quoted from the Earth Observatory image release.


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