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Posted: 9/24/2012 8:38:19 AM EST
In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 photo, onlookers gather as Indian people carry out a rescue operation at an area affected by a landslide at a village in Pegong, in North Sikkim, India. Landslides triggered by heavy rains claimed many lives, including those of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Border Roads Organization (BRO) personnel in Sikkim. (AP Photo) INDIA OUT
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Posted: 9/24/2012 8:38:19 AM EST
In this Sunday, Sept. 23, 2012 photo, Indian villagers stand near the site of a landslide at a village in Pegong, in North Sikkim, India. Landslides triggered by heavy rains claimed many lives, including those of Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Border Roads Organization (BRO) personnel in Sikkim. (AP Photo) INDIA OUT
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Posted: 9/24/2012 4:43:32 AM EST
In this June 10, 2009 photo, then Chonqing city police chief Wang Lijun, right, talks at a police mission to rescue people after a landslide in Wulong county, in southwestern China's Chongqing city. A Chinese court sentenced the former police who exposed a murder by a Chinese politician's wife to 15 years in prison Monday, Sept. 24, 2012, in a decision that sets the stage for China's leadership to wrap up a seamy political scandal and move ahead with a generational handover of power. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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Posted: 9/14/2012 9:43:39 AM EST
In this photo taken Wednesday June 10, 2009, then Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun speaks as he visits rescue workers at a landslide in Wulong county in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. The Chinese police chief whose flight to a U.S. consulate set off a messy political scandal will stand trial Tuesday, Sept 18. 2012 on charges of attempted defection and bribery, as China's leadership tries to wrap up the turbulent affair before new leaders are put in power in coming weeks. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
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Posted: 9/9/2012 6:59:51 AM EST
Local resident Hu Qin sits on a rope bridge as she is blocked by a landslide from going home to look for her parents living in a mountain in Luozehe town, after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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Posted: 9/9/2012 6:59:51 AM EST
A landslide blocks rescue workers along a road to Maomaoshan village in Luozehe town, after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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Posted: 9/9/2012 6:59:51 AM EST
A rescue worker runs past a landslide on a buried road to Maomaoshan village as a policeman keeps people going through, in Luozehe town after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province September 9, 2012. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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Posted: 9/9/2012 6:59:51 AM EST
Damaged houses next to a landslide are seen at the foot of a mountain in Luozehe town after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province September 8, 2012. Rescuers in southwestern China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by back-to-back earthquakes that killed at least 89 people and damaged many thousands of buildings, state media reported said. Shallow 5.6 magnitude quakes struck an impoverished, mountainous part of the country with poor infrastructure and communications on Friday and the death toll could rise as news trickled in from cut-off areas, the Xinhua news agency said. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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Posted: 9/9/2012 2:58:26 AM EST
Damaged houses next to a landslide are seen at the foot of a mountain in Luozehe town after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province September 8, 2012. Rescuers in southwestern China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by back-to-back earthquakes that killed at least 89 people and damaged many thousands of buildings, state media reported said. Shallow 5.6 magnitude quakes struck an impoverished, mountainous part of the country with poor infrastructure and communications on Friday and the death toll could rise as news trickled in from cut-off areas, the Xinhua news agency said. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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Posted: 9/8/2012 9:08:46 AM EST
Damaged houses next to a landslide are seen at the foot of a mountain in Luozehe town after two earthquakes hit Yiliang, Yunnan province September 8, 2012. Rescuers in southwestern China tried on Saturday to reach remote communities rocked by back-to-back earthquakes that killed at least 89 people and damaged many thousands of buildings, state media reported said. REUTERS/Jason Lee
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Posted: 9/7/2012 9:16:22 AM EST
A still image taken from video shows a tracking shot of a vehicle passing by an area affected by a landslide after an earthquake hit Yiliang county in Zhaotong city, in Yunnan province September 7, 2012. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV
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Posted: 9/7/2012 9:16:22 AM EST
A still image taken from video shows a tracking shot of a vehicle passing by an area affected by a landslide after an earthquake hit Yiliang county in Zhaotong city, in Yunnan province September 7, 2012. REUTERS/CCTV via Reuters TV
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Posted: 9/5/2012 1:48:22 PM EST
Earth partially covers a road after a landslide was triggered by an earthquake in Samara, Costa Rica, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. A powerful, magnitude-7.6 earthquake shook Costa Rica and a wide swath of Central America on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Danica Coto)
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Posted: 8/24/2012 10:54:22 AM EST
A man talks about his experience at his home, where a landslide caused by heavy showers due to the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac can be seen through his window, on the hills of Carenage, about 10 km (6 miles) west of the capital Port-of-Spain, August 23, 1012. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva
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Posted: 8/24/2012 10:54:22 AM EST
A man talks about his experience at his home, where a landslide caused by heavy showers due to the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac can be seen through his window, on the hills of Carenage, about 10 km (6 miles) west of the capital Port-of-Spain, August 23, 1012. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva
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Posted: 8/24/2012 10:54:22 AM EST
A man talks about his experience at his home, where a landslide caused by heavy showers due to the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac can be seen through his window, on the hills of Carenage, about 10 km (6 miles) west of the capital Port-of-Spain, August 23, 1012. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva
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Posted: 8/24/2012 9:40:45 AM EST
A man talks about his experience at his home, where a landslide caused by heavy showers due to the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac can be seen through his window, on the hills of Carenage, about 10 km (6 miles) west of the capital Port-of-Spain, August 23, 1012. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva
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Posted: 8/24/2012 9:40:45 AM EST
A man talks about his experience at his home, where a landslide caused by heavy showers due to the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac can be seen through his window, on the hills of Carenage, about 10 km (6 miles) west of the capital Port-of-Spain, August 23, 1012. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva
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Posted: 8/24/2012 9:40:45 AM EST
A man talks about his experience at his home, where a landslide caused by heavy showers due to the passing of Tropical Storm Isaac can be seen through his window, on the hills of Carenage, about 10 km (6 miles) west of the capital Port-of-Spain, August 23, 1012. REUTERS/Andrea De Silva
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Posted: 8/22/2012 5:42:48 PM EST
Ma Tianxin looks at the cracked walls of his house after a landslide near Badong, on the banks of the Yangtze River, 100km (62 miles) from the Three Gorges dam in Hubei province August 7, 2012. China relocated 1.3 million people during the 17 years it took to complete the Three Gorges dam. Even after finishing the $59 billion project last month, the threat of landslides along the dam's banks will force tens of thousands to move again. It's a reminder of the social and environmental challenges that have dogged the world's largest hydroelectric project. While there has been little protest among residents who will be relocated a second time, the environmental fallout over other big investments in China has become a hot-button issue ahead of a leadership transition this year. Picture taken on August 7, 2012. To match story CHINA-THREEGORGES/ REUTERS/Carlos Barria
