What are the causes of landslide? - Vidyadip

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What are the causes of landslide?

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Various types of natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunami, heavy rains, storms, floods can result into landslide.
The indiscriminate cutting down of the trees can result into soil erosion. Soil erosion in turn results into landslide.
The construction of roads, bridges, railway tracks, etc. on the mountain slopes result into lot of digging. Such activities make soil cover loose. From the slopes the soil and rocks then can slide easily. This results into landslides.

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